Coin
Gold 5 rubles of 1899., avers
Gold 5 rubles of 1899., the reverse
Coin (armor. moneta, initially - one of the epithets of the Juno (Juno Moneta), with temple of whom in Rome into 3 V. to n. 3. was located the mint) - the sign, prepared from the solid material (usually from the metals and them the alloys), usually in the form the disk. Face side is called avers, wrong side - the reverse, (in the Russian tradition the sides of coin are called the eagle and the tail), and edge - the drove.
With the advent of the role of coins as basic pay means considerably decreased, during our days of coin they are used in essence as the money of the small merit, the so-called change monetary terms.
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