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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Gazprom Issues Multi-Layered Two-Ruble Coin:
Not to be out-done by the US Mint, which newly announced the issue of a new one-dollar coin with four famous faces, Russian Gazprom---which took over the Russian Mint, when Russia changed from a gold-based to a gas-based monetary system---will issue a complex, multi-layered two-ruble coin (approximately 7.5 US cents), where the outmost layer of the coin is worth one ruble, the next layer is worth 50 kopecks, the one inside that one is worth 25 kopecks, etc. The sum of all layers adds up to two rubles.
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