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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Saor Alba, post: 746027, member: 21607&quot;]I started my Siberian type set with a Novodel kopek about 10 years ago and only about a couple of years ago found a nice enough example of the polushka, the denga and polushka are complete PITAs to find in nicer grades and authentic.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Siberian coins were struck in Kolyvan/Souzan, and when they were first struck it was determined through an assay that there were trace amounts of silver and gold in the copper which due to the technology not available at that remote mint could not be extracted, and was left in the coinage.&nbsp; As a result of the trace PMs they were made noticeably smaller than the contemporary Russian coinages.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the Siberian 5 Kopeika coins turned up in an excavation at the Russian American settlement in Ft. Ross in California, it was a settlement of the Russian America Company from 1812-1841.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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