Posted 02/10/2006 11:04 pm
Hey thanks I googled it also this is the first time I have been in a coin forum
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Originally posted by Sap
Try looking under Krause, Ukraine, KM#2. The letter that looks sort of like an "N" is actually the cyrillic P (derived from the Greek letter pi) and the letter looking like a "H" with a circular arc on top is actually a variant of that backwards-N-shaped cyrillic letter, pronounced like the y in "boy". Thus, your coin is a 25 kopiyok, a local variant on the more familiar word, "kopek".
Other countries in the Russian sphere issue coins in kopiyok or similar-looking/sounding denominations. Ukrainian coins should have the national symbol, looking like a winged sword, on the obverse.
