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 Posted 02/09/2010  10:37 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add DJB1968 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
SWEET! Love the selection 'gxseries'. Especially the Alexander 1834 Proof. I've seen some of your specimens on Omnicoin, and I have to say I'm very impressed. Thanks for sharing.

~Daniel

Heres a link for those who want to see my choice coins. http://www.omnicoin.com/user_view.a...=Zantetsuken
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holy cow! awesome pictures Ribis and Gxseries!
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I do have a question. I've never understood why the 15 kopek coin was minted, and apparently for a very long period. It just seems to be an odd denomination, even odder than the 3-cent piece that I use as my avatar. Does anyone have an explanation for this denomination? Maybe originally it was the price of a peck of potatoes?


Here's what I think about this. A lot of things were relatively "cheap" at the time. Same as in the USSR after 1961 monetary reform. You could buy stuff for just 1 or two or three kopecks. Many people had salaries under 100 rubles a month. Therefore there was the need in a lot of small denomination coins, so there were 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 50 kopeck coins in change. Seemed pretty natural.
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ribis, thanks for your information. I asked about 15 kopeks because I thought that a denomination, like 15 and 3, which did not divide into 100 was quite unusual, and I wondered if there was a historical reason for this denomination.
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