Banknotes and paper money (VIII-XX century)
The history of paper money is just as exciting and varied as the history of…

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Banknotes and paper money (VIII-XX century)
The history of paper money is just as exciting and varied as the history of…

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FIRST RUBLE
- The original ruble of the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the catalog of V.…

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MONETA JOHN
The Russian Empress Elizabeth did not think that a number of her decrees, by which…

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value of the efimkas

FIRST RUBLE

– The original ruble of the Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich in the catalog of V. I. Petrov (1900) is estimated at 300 rubles.
Of course, the cost of extremely rare items of numismatics is a very relative concept. Petrov understood this very well, pointing to every page of his catalog: “Prices are not obligatory”.
A numismatist is usually interested not so much in the specific cost of a relatively rare numismatic item, as in its historical significance.
From this point of view, the ruble of Alexei Mikhailovich is of double value: both as a great rarity and as a new milestone in the history of Russian money circulation. Continue reading

FALSIFICATION AND COINS
The whole history of numismatics is a kind of struggle with various fakes and other…

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Vintage German coins and medals
Coinage in the territory of the German state from the end of the Middle Ages…

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