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Photo Gallery - Early Russian Hammered Silver Coins, "Wire Money", circa 16th Century1 Denga and 1 Polushka Denominations |
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This gallery depicts images of early Russian silver coins called "Wire
Money" hammered from 1533 to 1617 (under the rule of tzars Ivan IV, "Ivan
the Terrible", Shuisky, and Mikhail Fedorovich). Each of them represents
a type of coins from the cache that I recovered in the St. Petersburg Region,
Russia (see Coin
Cache Discovery story).
"Wire Money", type of early Russian coins, were produced from 980
AD to 1718. To make such coin, a piece of silver wire was cut off at certain
length and hammered flat, then a design was hammered on both sides. Each coin
represents a larger group of similar coins found.
Denominations:1 Rouble = 100 Kopeks = 200 Dengas = 400 Polushkas (after Monetary Reform 1533-1538) |
Time Periods of coins shown:1533-1584 (under the rule of Ivan IV Vasiljevich (Ivan The Terrible)) 1606-1610 (under the rule of Vasily Ivanovich Shuisky) 1611-1617 (Swedish occupation) |
Mints:Moscow Novgorod Pskov Tver' |
Coin Weights:1 Kopek: 0.68g 1 Denga: 0.34g 1 Polushka: 0.17g |
Each coin represents a larger group of similar coins found.