Coins of Russia

right|thumb|1997 kopeyka (Russian ruble|Russia) right|thumb|1992 kopiyka (Ukrainian hryvnia|Ukraine)

Altyn (Russian , also ) is a historical Russian currency (symbol: 15px). The name in Tatar is altın (алтын) meaning "gold", and altı () meaning "six", since it was worth six dengi, equivalent to three kopeck silver, then copper, a small value coin, or 180–206 copper puls.

thumb|250px|Four pre-reform dengi of the Novgorod Republic (novgorodki), 1420–1478. thumb|250px|A copper denga minted during the reign of Tsar Peter the Great|Peter I in 1704.

thumb|Silver polushka (poludenga) of Ivan the Terrible, minted in [[Veliky Novgorod in 1535–1584. Weight 0.15 g.]] thumb|Obverse of a rare 1700 polushka. The legend around the eagle reads "ЦРЬ ПЕТР АЛЕКСЕЕВИЧ" or Tsar Petr Alekseevich (Peter the Great) thumb|Reverse of a 1700 polushka. The word polushka is on two lines and the old Cyrillic date is below "҂АΨ" The legend reads "ВСЕЯ РОСИИ САМОДЕРЖЕЦ" or ...autocrat of all Russia. Minted at the Naberezhny mint in Moscow. thumb|1795 Polushka minted under Catherine II (Catherine the Great)

silver coin of the Russian Empire