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Shapeless silver coins

A Sweden term “klippe” means “to cut with scissors”. As the first tecnology of coinage was so elementary and as a result coins had nonround form, this term was used for such coins. First klippe-coins were minted in Scandinavia and Poland in 16th sentury. They had form of polygon with the round stamp inside.
Shapeless silver coins in ancient Russia

In ancient Russia the technology of minting was: the pieces of silver wire were hammered out by the stamp. Silver was flowing in accidental form; often an oval one. For this blurred …

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Commemorative silver coins

Modern coinage is following the ancient tradition in coinage. Coins of the Bank of Russia are still manufacturing at Moscow Mint and St. Petersburg Mint. Their features are the high quality of coinage and perfect decorative design. The silver coins producible there are in popular demand throughout the Russia as well as abroad.
Taking a part in collection the global forces for the environmental protection Russian signifies it issuing the set ‘Save Our World’.

The ‘Sable’ was mint at 1995. It commemorative silver coin presents on the reverse the sable sitting on …