merchants; yet, notwithstanding, there is a coin of copper, which
serveth for the relief of the poor in Moscow, and nowhere else, and
that is but only for quas, water, and fruit--as nuts, apples, and
such like. The name of which money is called pole or poles, of
which poles there go to the least of the silver coins eighteen. But
I will not stand upon this, because it is no current money amongst
merchants.

Of silver coins there be these sorts of pieces: the least is a
poledenga; the second, a denga; the third, nowgrote, which is as
much to say in English, as halfpenny, penny, and twopence; and for
other valued money than this there is none. There are oftentimes
there coins of gold, but they come out of foreign countries; whereof
there is no ordinary valuation, but they pass according to the
agreement of merchants.

Their order in summing of money is this: as we say in England,
halfpenny, penny, shilling, and pound, so say they, poledenga,
denga, altine, and rubble (rouble). There goeth two poledengas to a
denga, six dengaes to an altine, and twenty-three altines and two
dengaes to a rubble.

Concerning the weights of Russia, they are these. There are two
sorts of pounds in use amongst them--the one great, the other small.
The great pound is just two small pounds; they call the great weight
by the name of beasemar, and the small they call the skallawaight.
With this small weight they weigh their silver coins, of which the
Emperor hath commanded to put to every small pound three rubbles of
silver; and with the same weight they weigh all grocery wares, and
almost all other wares, which come into the land, except those which