Imperial Russia 10 Ruble

brogine

I have gotten an 1899 10 ruble and especially like that it has an edge inscription. After spending probably three fruitless hours on the net, I'm asking for help. Can you tell me where to find a (Cyrillic) text of the edge and/or a translation? The inscription is legible, but I'm asking for a text because a few letters don't seem to match up with the alphabets on Wiki and a couple of other sources I've looked at. (That's why I'm not including a text.) Maybe a bad strike, or another of the endless variants of the Cyrillic alphabet. In any case, Ive found the answer to a question I posed a while back about non-Latin-alphabet edge inscriptions.

TwoKopeiki

If you're able to post a picture of the edge - I can translate the writing. Keep in mind that Russian, as it exists now, is a little different from "Imperial", or "Old" Russian. That can explain why you're not finding all the letters, for example.

TwoKopeiki

Hi Stephen,

I received your e-mail. The inscription identifies the purity of the coin - "Of pure gold 1 Zolotnik and 78,24 Doli", which is 7.74234 grams of pure gold.

Cheers.

spoon

Looks like Roman already handled it for you.

Here are some older Cyrillic alphabets with a handy explanation of which ones fell out of use or were eliminated in the 1918 reform.

TwoKopeiki

That's a cool site, Spoon!

brogine

Thanks so much, Roman and spoon. Incidentally, has something changed about non-Latin characters? I posted once with some Greek letters. . .

TwoKopeiki

Ever since I joined, I wasn't able to post Cyrillic characters.

brogine

Oh, one more thing:

What's that in the parentheses? I swear it's Cyrillic letters ef - ze, as opposed to what you gave. Is it a mintmark? That's not a Russian mintmark in the book I've looked at.

Maybe, just maybe . . . Did it!