[Konstantin]

My son recently returned from Bulgaria and brought the Bulgarian coins. They, to my surprise, too, depicts George, but a little different. The concerned whether there are coins with Giorgi, some of which found. Take a look - interesting.
The first three are Bulgarian coins, then British, then our investment gold coin.

On a gorgeous text found

The size of "St. George" coincides with the king's gold pieces, but the sample has changed: instead of 900 it was 999 (the number of pure gold coin will increase accordingly.)

The name "investment coin" speaks for itself. These coins are for investment of savings in precious metal. A similar gold coin, more than 500 years is the most recognized and respected means of payment in the world. This - British Gold Sovereign (eng. Sovereign - the monarch), the official payment coin British Crown. Weight and purity of gold coins of Russia almost entirely consistent with a similar coin of Great Britain.

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The reverse side of the Russian "Sovereign", like English, depicts a scene defeat the dragon St. George, but with typical Russian design. Image of St. George was taken with all the old "penny" trifles, is now in circulation. By the way, and the word "kopek" owes its name to the same rider with a spear - George. So the idea of creating such a gold coin, designed for public investment in gold, not only has deep historical roots, but rather symbolic. On the front side of the British gold sovereigns minted image of the reigning monarch, and on our gold coins valued at 50 rubles double-headed eagle.

British "George" and the young Elizabeth. Coin weighing 7.9881 g. (7.3224 g. of pure gold) is interesting that these British sovereigns are recognized everywhere and often used in critical situations around the world. During the American military operation "Desert Storm" a few years ago, American pilots were taken along these historic gold coins in case they, for whatever reason, would have been in Iraqi territory. Gold sovereigns were included in the standard summer survival kit along with water and medicines.


As you can see, the twentieth century for gold, gold pieces are given to violent. War, exchanges, revolution and chaos - a gold coin has always affirmed his status reliable currency. Happen tomorrow some cataclysmic event - gold banknotes will once again become the only reliable currency.

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So the gold coins and now enjoy popularity in Russia - just six months of 2008, Sberbank of Russia sold 2.2 tonnes of gold coins. Thus the first half of 2008 has sold over 254 thousand gold "Pobedonostsev", which is 25%more in annual sales in 2007. So now you know that the store under the cushions?