kopeks
Fractions of rubles
Kopeks are a unit of Russian currency, with one hundred kopeks making up a single ruble.
The term derives from the Russian word for "lance," referencing the image of a mounted warrior with a spear that appeared on early coins.
Kopeks have such minimal value that they function much like pennies in American usage—often ignored in casual transactions but still technically legal tender.
The candy cost only a few kopeks.
Russian currency units
- coinsMetal money units
- centimesHundredth-unit coins
- centsDollar subdivisions
- denominationNamed religious group
change · Soviet · Russian · imperial · tsarist · monetary · small change · coinage
Insultingly small payment
paltry · meager · insignificant · negligible · nominal · trivial · bargain · affordable
rubles
Russian currency units
denomination · change · Soviet · Russian · imperial · tsarist · monetary · small change · coinage · currency
pittance
Insultingly small payment
cheap · paltry · meager · insignificant · negligible · nominal · trivial · bargain · affordable · inexpensive
Dostoevsky
19th-century Russian author
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
- Russian literatureFiction from that vast nation
- tsaristOf Russian emperors
Tolstoy · peasant · merchant · bazaar · marketplace · poverty · alms · beggar · miser · counting
- old moneyold money, blue blood, trust fund, private wealth, endowment