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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 265050, member: 2844"]Could be. Either the coin, but why, or maybe the name of the manufacturer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruble on Wikipedia:</p><p>According to one version, the word "ruble" is derived from the Russian verb рубить (<i>rubit</i>), "to cut, to chop, to hack", as ruble was considered as a cutout piece of a silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" rel="nofollow">grivna</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rubles were parts of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" rel="nofollow">grivna</a> or pieces of silver with notches indicating their weight. Each grivna was divided into four parts; the name "ruble" came from the word "cut" because the silver rod weighing 1 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna" rel="nofollow">grivna</a> was split into four parts, which were called rubles.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-Kondrat-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-Kondrat-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Another version of the word's origin is that it comes from the Russian noun рубец (<i>rubets</i>), the seam that is left around a silver bullions after casting: silver was added to the cast in two steps. Therefore, the word <i>ruble</i> means "a cast with a seam".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-halatov-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-halatov-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Doesn't really make sense in this case.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 265050, member: 2844"]Could be. Either the coin, but why, or maybe the name of the manufacturer. Ruble on Wikipedia: According to one version, the word "ruble" is derived from the Russian verb рубить ([I]rubit[/I]), "to cut, to chop, to hack", as ruble was considered as a cutout piece of a silver [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna']grivna[/URL]. Rubles were parts of the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna']grivna[/URL] or pieces of silver with notches indicating their weight. Each grivna was divided into four parts; the name "ruble" came from the word "cut" because the silver rod weighing 1 [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna']grivna[/URL] was split into four parts, which were called rubles.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-Kondrat-1'][1][/URL] Another version of the word's origin is that it comes from the Russian noun рубец ([I]rubets[/I]), the seam that is left around a silver bullions after casting: silver was added to the cast in two steps. Therefore, the word [I]ruble[/I] means "a cast with a seam".[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruble#cite_note-halatov-2'][2][/URL] Doesn't really make sense in this case.:([/QUOTE]
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