For diggers from Siberia, my blog should not forget about the comrades on the other (or that) side of the Ural Mountains.
Very curious and interesting coins were minted during the reign of Catherine II in Siberia. Catherine the Great was a very smart lady and since the Siberian lands were located very far from the capital of the Empire — St. Petersburg, and the delivery of coins from St. Petersburg to Siberia and across the entire Empire was not a cheap matter, the government in 1763 decided to start minting special Siberian money.
The coins were different in appearance and had sables instead of the state emblem. The obverse of all coins was the same — monogram of Catherine the Great.
Such beautiful coins were minted at the Suzunsky copper smelter and mint built in 1766. The minting of coins was stopped after 15 years, in 1781, having issued coins with a total amount of more than 3.5 million rubles. It is curious that it was decided to stop minting the coin due to the drop in the value of the coin — visiting merchants did not recognize the coin; it did not circulate on the territory of the Empire, so it was decided to mint a general imperial coin at the Suzunsky Mint. The coins were in use in Siberia until 1802, after which they began to be withdrawn, and in 1842 the coin was already out of circulation everywhere.
Such coins are now worth more than their regular Imperial «brothers», but the price is falling due to such clever diggers like us, who are saturating the numismatic market with more and more new arrivals .
I like to identify finds and see what kind of coin or other artifact it was, so I am collecting a fairly extensive database of posts, which is available at this link. Good cop!
