18th century Russian denominations?

shirohniichan

Krause 18th century world coin catalog owners, please let me know the answer to this question. When Peter the Great initiated his reforms to Westernize his country, what denominations were introduced in Russia's coniage from lowest to highest?

tbirde56

1/4 kopeck= Polushka
1/2 k = Denga, Denezhka
1 k
2 k
3 k = Altyn, Altynik
4 k
5 k
10 k = Grivna, Grivennik
15 k
20 k
25 k = Polupoltina, Polupoltinnik
50 k = Poltina, Poltinik
1 Rouble, Ruble
2 R
5 R
10 R = Chervonetz, Imperial

shirohniichan

Thanks! In what year did this system start? What was the fineness of the silver coins?

tbirde56

No info in Krause as to when the system started.
The 18th century silver coins mostly ranged .729-.868 fineness though there were some low grade silver types as well as some with unlisted finenesses.

Shipcoin

I'll look at mi Russian reference, in what year he started that system, please remind me to do it!

Philip

<< <i>I'll look at mi Russian reference, in what year he started that system, please remind me to do it! >>



I remind you. I find it very disturbing that there are 3 coins listed under Russia in the 17th century (excluding novodels) so I'd like to know more

Shipcoin

O'k Philip, I'll do it today or tomorrow, promise --sorry for the delay!

sumnom

Reading this thread makes me realize that I know nothing about Russian history. Can someone recommend some good references?

Shipcoin

O'k as I promised I'm returning with some info:

<<In what year did this system start? >>

Peter the Great did it in 1698-1704 years and the main idea was in introducing of the system of silver and cooper denominations, that was founded on decimal principle. Besides that he introduced machine mint in Russia instead of "hand" mint. And he founded also the first Russian "Munc-cabinet", because he have collected coins by himself!

For these of you who knows how transfer Russian into English here is the detail link:

Some data about old Russian coins

Philip

Thanks for the info and wonderful article

shirohniichan

I'd heard that Russia was first to introduce the decimal system to coinage, but I never knew when or what denominations were used. Thanks for the information.

Wasn't the US second to use the decimal system?

It took me long enough to learn the Russian letters, so I don't expect to be able to understand the words any time soon.

Shipcoin

You are welcome when I posted the link I didn't mean that anybody here (except Philip and Severo) could read these terrible letters, and especially words, but as far as I know some guys here: Spoon , Satootoko used to translate any foreign languages with the help of some Web Translator!