Copper & Button Slump Over - Russian Kopeck!

[The Rebel]

Got out with Frank yesterday for an all-day hunt. Was up at 4am and got home 7pm. Sites are getting tougher to find and those that we do find are pounded. Was out on the CT/RI border in Voluntown as well as Sterling.

Our best site of the day was our 1st one that was way out in the woods and required some bushwhacking.

I was swinging around a tree when I got a 95-97 and was rewarded with a 1791 Catherine II (Catherine The Great) 5 Kopeck. At first I thought it was some medallion as its heavy but Frank ID it.

Was a great day to be out in the woods!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

All your hard work really paid off - congrats on a stellar bunch of finds !

 

[lenmac65]

Awesome find and nice job on the clean up too! I find it so interesting to see examples of the various foreign coins that were circulating in this country in its early years. Congrats!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Again, congrats on a very unique, historical and what I would say is a "Banner" find !
Found this info. online ---

While there have only been a few women throughout history who have ruled a world superpower, few were as influential and impactful as Catherine the Great!
She rose to power in 1762 when she was just 33 years old and would become the undisputed monarch of the then largest nation in the world.

What many do not know is that Catherine the Great actually played a major part in helping the fledgling 13 Colonies in our War for Independence! She formed a group known as the “League of Armed Neutrality” that played an integral role in keeping the British military spread-thin worldwide and allowed us the chance to throw off the oppressive yoke of King George III once and for all.

We recently came across a small handful of coins known as ‘5 Kopeks’ that honor Catherine the Great.
Each of these massive coins has an average weight of 51 grams, making them the largest copper coin ever struck for circulation.

 

[The Rebel]

Thanks for the info, she was quite the monarch!

I'd love to get a banner for this but need the votes.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on some nice finds.

 

[oldmxrat]

Banner vote from me, killer find!

 

[The Rebel]

I'm still in disbelief on this find. I'd love to know how it ended up here.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

I'm still in disbelief on this find. I'd love to know how it ended up here.

Maybe the coin was just brought from home ?
I don't know about your part of the country but we had a lot of Russian Immigrants in our area.
A community of them worked in local Coal Mines and there's still a old Russian Orthodox Church in use 20 miles from where I live.

 

[The Rebel]

According to the 1868 map, the family who lived there was named Hazzard.

As it's about 2hrs away from my house l don't know the population all that well but l don't believe a Russian population was very large there if at all.

Close to my city Eastern European immigrants tended to live in the mill towns/cities.

 

[unclemac]

that sort of coin would have been found on the west coast!

 

[The Rebel]

I wonder how many have been found here, can't be that many.

that sort of coin would have been found on the west coast!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

that sort of coin would have been found on the west coast!

We also have plenty of old Russian immigrants here in Ohio too.

 

[Gare]

Unique finds NICE going

 

[unclemac]

We also have plenty of old Russian immigrants here in Ohio too.

Those found out left would be associated with Russian fur trading posts....

 

[The Rebel]

Discovered the other day there are initials on the edge, looks to be MAH. The family that lived there had the last name of Hazzard.

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Cool find - congrats !

 

[Digger RJ]

Got out with Frank yesterday for an all-day hunt. Was up at 4am and got home 7pm. Sites are getting tougher to find and those that we do find are pounded. Was out on the CT/RI border in Voluntown as well as Sterling.

Our best site of the day was our 1st one that was way out in the woods and required some bushwhacking.

I was swinging around a tree when I got a 95-97 and was rewarded with a 1791 Catherine II (Catherine The Great) 5 Kopeck. At first I thought it was some medallion as its heavy but Frank ID it.

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Very Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Silvermonkey]

Got out with Frank yesterday for an all-day hunt. Was up at 4am and got home 7pm. Sites are getting tougher to find and those that we do find are pounded. Was out on the CT/RI border in Voluntown as well as Sterling.

Our best site of the day was our 1st one that was way out in the woods and required some bushwhacking.

I was swinging around a tree when I got a 95-97 and was rewarded with a 1791 Catherine II (Catherine The Great) 5 Kopeck. At first I thought it was some medallion as its heavy but Frank ID it.

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That is a KILLER coin Rebel, and unusual to boot. Congrats!!!

 

[Mackaydon]

Great saves!!
The letters Е and М on a Russian 5-kopeck coin stand for the Ekaterinburg Mint, 900 miles East of Moscow and a 'mere' ~7,300 miles from where it was found.
Don in SoCal