>>20295918Thanks anon, if you haven't had the pleasure of caressing a big copper before I can't recommend it highly enough, for their $20-30 price range you'd be hard-pressed to find anything else that gives ya more bang for the buck.
>>20295792That cat is so goddamn based I can hardly handle it, holy shit lol.
>>20296125>You could literally kill a jew just throwing one of those bad boys if you hit the yarmulke zone!Kek, it shouldn't surprise you that I've ruminated over this very idea far more than I'd admit in most company. I really don't know anything about the day-to-day Russian economy at any time in history so your guesses are as good as mine, but they minted hundreds of millions of these for 40+ years and most are obviously circulated so they got used a lot. The idea occurred to me that like how ancient Sparta used iron rods as money instead of silver to discourage avarice and other ignoble Jewish traits, maybe comically large "small" change for the plebs was chosen by the Russian leadership to help prevent Ashkenazim filth from wandering out of the shtetl with enough money to cause problems elsewhere? If just 1 ruble weighs over a kilo then the floor of Shlomo's merchant cart would give-way long before he had enough wealth to accomplish anything that might concern his actual human neighbors. I also think Russia made important territorial gains in the Baltic/Scandinavia where there were rich copper mines, so maybe they just had more than they knew what to do with and figured minting thousands of tonnes of coins with it was better than flooding the global market?
