Moldavia & Wallachia 2 Para / 3 Kopeks 1774 VF- (corrosion scars!)

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1774, Moldavia & Wallachia. Copper 2 Para / 3 Kopeks.

Mint Year: 1774
Reference: Bitkin 1251, KM-C#3.
Denomination: 2 Para / 3 Kopeks
Region: Moldavia & Wallachia (Principality under Russian Occupation).
Condition: Mint-made planchet defects, minor corrosion damage, light deposits, otherwise VF!
Material: Gun-metal copper (gathered from captured cannons!)
Weight: 18.38gm
Diameter: 36mm

Obverse: Ducal cap above oval shields of Moldavia and Wallachia. Date (1774) below.
Legend : МОН . МОЛД . И . САЛОСК .

Reverse: Denomination in four lines within square.
Legend 2 ПАРА 3 КОПЕКЪ ("2 Para / 3 Kopeks")


During her reign Catherine extended the borders of the Russian Empire southward and westward to absorb New Russia, Crimea, Right-Bank Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Courland at the expense of two powers — the Ottoman Empire and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. All told, she added some 200,000 miles² (518,000 km²) to Russian territory.



Catherine II, called Catherine the Great (Russian: Екатерина II Великая, Yekaterina II Velikaya; 2 May [O.S. 21 April] 1729 – 17 November [O.S. 6 November] 1796) reigned as Empress of Russia for 34 years, from 9 July [O.S. 28 June] 1762 until her death. She exemplifies the enlightened despot of her era.

Catherine's father, Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, held the rank of a Prussian general in his capacity as Governor of the city of Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland) in the name of the king of Prussia. Though born as Sophia Augusta Frederica (Sophia Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, nicknamed "Figchen"), a minor German princess in Stettin, Catherine did have some (very remote) Russian ancestry, and two of her first cousins became Kings of Sweden: Gustav III and Charles XIII. In accordance with the custom then prevailing amongst the German nobility, she received her education chiefly from a French governess and from tutors.

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