Polushka
Sign in to savethumb|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)
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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)
A polushka (, "half [of a denga]"), also historically known as a poludenga (), was a Russian coin with a value equal to denga. Following the 1535 monetary reform of Elena Glinskaya, it had a value equal to kopeck (100 kopecks = 1 ruble).