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Message:: [QUOTE="Siberian Man, post: 1481776, member: 22500"]Here is a history of a circulation of Russian coins since 862 until 1700.1. The second half of IX - the beginning of the XIIth century: Russians used a coins from Byzantium, Arabic countries and Europe. Also in that period we have produced an own silver and golden coins.2. XII - XIVth centuries: Russians used a bars of silver (hrivnya). In that period we didn't released an own coins. At the second half of the XIIIth century and at htw first half of the XIVth century we used a Mongolian coins. During the second half of the XIVth century we counterstamped a Mongolian coins.3. The end of the XIVth - the middle of the XVIth century: regular production of Russian coins begins. In that period Russia was a conglomerate of independent and semi-independent feudal duchies. Each duchy has produced its own wire coins. In the middle of the XVIth century Russia was a united country with an own currency: silver wire kopek. The weight of one kopek was from 0,47 to 0,68 g.4. The second half of the XVIth - the end of the XVIIth century: Russians have bought an European thalers and melted them. From this silver we produced an own silver wire kopeks. At the middle of the XVIIth century Russians has counterstamped an European thalers. Each such thaler was equal to one rouble (100 kopeks).[/QUOTE]