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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 130995, member: 4373&quot;]Hello Kasis, you probably will not find much infomation online as such materials are almost all in Russian or otherwise very specialized catalogue. Perhaps you would like to get a Uzedenikov but I doubt you are going to get it just for the sake of one particular coin. Uzedenikov has rated it as common, so it should not be too difficult to find another example like yours. </p><p><br /></p><p>Numismatically speaking, such coins were originally minted in Poland while she was under the control of Russia. While the inscription is all in Polish, notice that Alexander I is the Tsar of Russia during that era. While the first Polish coin under the Russian influence was minted back in 1815, it wasn&#039;t until 1839 that such coins were discontinued as the Russians insisted that Polish coins should have dual denominations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two examples if you are confused:</p><p><br /></p><p>1839 1 grosz</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/910418.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1835 1.5ruble-10zlots</p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/901664.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As you can see, the earlier coin was minted only in Polish but on the second coin, it is minted in dual denomination and without any Polish language - an attempt to eradicate Polish. The dual denomination coinage was minted from 1832-1850. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now to think about mintage figures, I think that is the worst representation of how rare these coins could be. Because of the history that Russia had, as well as the Polish resentment of the Russians, one will never know how many coins were actually remelted for other coinages. Fortunately, that makes your coin more interesting. As well as, the current market of Russian and Polish numismatic field is currently going at some unbelievable rate, I honestly cannot give you a figure how much it can be worth, unless I see what your coin grade is like. A figure of 10-50+USD is not going to be suprising thanks to the market trends. </p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to ask more questions if I didn&#039;t include what you wanted to know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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