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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gam3rBlake, post: 8312276, member: 115909&quot;]Omg I just read that Imperial Russia did indeed strike platinum coins for circulation because they were afraid selling it all on the open market would’ve caused a crash in the price of platinum.</p><p><br /></p><p>But it wasn’t pure platinum.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1471420[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They made a 3 ruble, 6 ruble, and 12 ruble platinum coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>For comparison the 10 ruble gold coin (called a “chervonet”) was about 8 grams of gold and the 1 ruble silver coin was about the size of a Morgan Dollar. Like most unit sized silver coins of the time such as the British crown and Spanish Dollar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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