Definizione

• A copper coin of Russia, the one hundredth part of the Ruble. There are multiples of two, three and five Kopecks, and a division, the half Kopeck.

  The Kopeck existed as a silver coin of low standard as early as the sixteenth cen- tury, but the copper issues began in the year 1704. The name is derived from Kopiejka, a spear Of lance, in allusion to the armed horseman carrying that weapon, a design similar and perhaps copied from the coins of Lithuania.

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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