This crude silver kopek was issued during the reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725). The coins were struck by taking a piece of silver wire, cutting it to the proper weight, then smashing it between dies.
The Bolshevik revolutionary-turned-dictator Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953. He was arguably the most prolific mass murderer in history. This set contains one...
Once upon a time, some 300 million years ago, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, Antarctica, and the Americas were all part of one enormous supercontinent: Pangaea. The namea combination of the Greek...
