"Mordovka" - Central Volga Imitation of Russian kopeck 2-headed bird / 5-lines text

Features

Location	Russia › Russian Empire (1547-1917)
Type	Proto-coins
Years	1730-1800
Weight	1.11 g
Diameter	15.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 160828

Obverse

Double-headed bird (imitation of a Double-headed Russian imperial eagle from the coins minted at 1730-1754).

Reverse

Simbols imitating letters from Russian wire kopecks

Script: Cyrillic

Comments

Mordovka - common term meaning imitations of wire and early Russian coins (less often, Golden Horde or other coins) minted by the non-Russian people in Mid-Volga region during, according to different researches, XV-XIX centuries.

Researchers made various assumptions about the usage of Mordovkas as local coins or even as an official currency of Khanate of Kazan, but it is still unproven. Modern view is that they we used:

as clothes decoration (usually smaller holed types);
for religious rituals purposes (usually non-holed types).

This type was (most probably) used as a cheap substitute of coins for sacrificing to local Gods.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (1730-1800)

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