Kopek Definition

Origin of Kopek

• Russian kopeĭka from Middle Russian kopeika from kopie spear (from the image of St. George, patron saint of Moscow, on horseback holding a spear that appeared on the coins from their introduction in 1535 until the early 1800s)

  From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

• From Russian копейка (kopejka), from копьё (kopʹjó, “spear") (from the image of a rider with a spear on the coins minted by Moscow after the capture of Novgorod in 1478).

  From Wiktionary