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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 610219, member: 6229"]You've heard all the talk about the new dollar coins being minted to replace the paper Dollar in the USA (as Canada has so successfully done ). You've, also, heard the complaints of a muttering few who pretend to be disgruntled about the weight of the new Dollar coins versus paper currency in pocket or purse. Now I ask you to let the visions in your mind drift back to the Russia of 1758 to 1762 before Catherine the Great set in motion her expansionist machinations and her quest to modernize Russian Society. The coin I want you to know about is the Russian 5 Kopecks. Russian rulers, including Catherine, believed all Russian coins should contain their intrinsic value in whatever metal they are composed of. In the case of the 5 Kopecks coin you are about to see, it is composed of copper. In the late 18th and early 19th Century the 5 Kopecks copper coin was a formidable sum of money. To comply with the minting rules the coin was struck on 42mm (1 3/4") in diameter copper flans (planchets). For your enlightenment here is a photo courtesy of Don's World Coin Gallery: <a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine.php?image=img8/149-1762k&desc=Russia%20c9%205%20Kopeks%20(1758-1762)&query=Russia%209%20kopeks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine.php?image=img8/149-1762k&desc=Russia%20c9%205%20Kopeks%20(1758-1762)&query=Russia%209%20kopeks" rel="nofollow">http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine.php?image=img8/149-1762k&desc=Russia c9 5 Kopeks (1758-1762)&query=Russia 9 kopeks</a>  Thought you ought to know... Clinker[/QUOTE]

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