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- = 3 kopeck Grivennik = 10 kopeck Pyatialtynny = 15 kopeck coin literally "5 altyn coin" Dvugrivenny = 20 kopeck, literally "two-grivennik coin" Half-poltina [ru]...
- three copecks, a "grivennik" is ten copecks, a "pyatialtynny" ("five-altyns") is fifteen copecks, and a "dvugrivenny" ("two-grivenniks") is 20 copecks....
- first decimal currency. In the 18th century were introduced the coins grivennik (10 kopeks) and imperial (10 rubles). This was not quite decimal currencies...
- This last meaning survived into the 18th to 20th centuries when one grivennik or grivenka meant a 10-kopek coin. The grivna as a silver bullion currency...
- the late 19th-century Russian carnival, with standard entry as low as a grivennik (10 kopecks), or even lower, depending on the development of the area...