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chervonets
Chervonets (pl. chervontsy) is the traditional Russian name for large foreign and domestic gold coins. The name comes from the Russian term червонное золото (chervonnoye zoloto), meaning 'red gold' (also known as rose gold)the old name of a high-grade gold type.
Moscow Gold
510 tonnes of gold transferred from Republican Spain to the Soviet Union in 1936