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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1623644, member: 41665&quot;]<font size="3">Several paragraphs after some generic information about platina coinage (3 Rouble in Platinum?!?) silver, copper and Paper Roubles, there&#039;s this bit. </font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><b>This Russian coin/composition is what?</b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b></b>From <i>Excursions in the interior of Russia: including sketches of the </i>..., Vol. 1 Robert Bremner (1839) p.8 <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=j0oCAAAAYAAJ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://books.google.com/books?id=j0oCAAAAYAAJ" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=j0oCAAAAYAAJ</a></font></p><p><font size="3">&quot;The traveller gains in the same proportion on all silver brought from the capital. <b>The only coin we found at a discount is a very handsome new one, <i>nominally worth something more than two roubles</i>, but which, in some remote parts, after leaving Moscow, is under that value, and occasionally will scarcely be taken at all.&quot; </b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b><br /></b></font></p><p><font size="3"><b></b>What coin is that, pray tell? If the confusion is in the Paper Value, &quot;nominally worth something more&quot; should mean <i>stamped </i>2.5? The Platinum 3-Rouble described to Michael Faraday sounds suspiciously similar: </font></p><p><font size="3"><a href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2011/11/russia-1834-iridum.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2011/11/russia-1834-iridum.html" rel="nofollow">http://noblemetals.blogspot.com/2011/11/russia-1834-iridum.html</a></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">From <i>The merchant&#039;s assistant, or, Merchantile instructer</i>... ; Georg Thomas Flügel, Francis Joseph Grund (Boston, 1834) p.262</font></p><p><font size="3">&quot;Besides these regular coins <b>there is yet a platinum coin set in circulation, of the size of a French franc, and in value of 2.5 silver rubles; but the taking of such coin in payment is altogether optional</b>.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3">I suppose it&#039;s this. What are the alternatives? Thanks!</font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p>[ATTACH]230952.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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