1915 AD., 2nd German empire / Russia, Love Token for a German woman called Lilly, from a 15 Kopeks coin, Petrograd mint, cf. KM Y 21a.

2nd German empire / Russia, Nicholas II (1894-1917), Love Token for a German woman called Lilly, dated 1915 AD., grinded and engraved from a 15 Kopeks original coin: Petrograd mint, mintmaster Victor Smirnov (initials: B C), struck ca. 1912-15 AD.,
Love Token from 15 Kopeks (ø 19,5-22,5 mm / 2,29 g), 0.480 silver, 2,70 g. theor. mint weight, mintage ? , axes medal alignment ↑↑ (0°), reeded edge, 3 mm hanger on top,
Obv.: B - C , mintmaster´s initials below crowned Russian imperial double eagle holding insignia, ribbons on crown.
Rev.: GEWIDMET MEINER LIEBEN / Lilly / 1915. / SIBIRIEN. Rld. , text, date and location (Rld. for Rheinland). [original reverse: * 15 * / КОПѢЕКЪ / (mint mark?) / 191(2-7) in a wreath of oak and laurel, cown above, no ribbons on crown]
cf. KM Y 21a .

Year / Mint Mark and Initials / Mintage / KM-no. and details
1912 СПБ ВС Y 21a.2; Rare
1913 СПБ ВС 5,300,000 Y 21a.2
1913 СПБ ЭБ Y 21a.2; proof issue
1914 СПБ ВС 43,367,000 Y 21a.2
1915 ВС 59,333,000 Y 21a.3
1916 96,666,000 Y 21a.1 ; struck at Osaka, Japan without mintmaster initials
1916 ВС 96,773,000 Y 21a.3
1917 ВС 14,320,000 Y 21a.3

The Rhineland (German: Rheinland) has become the name for several areas of Western Germany along the Middle and Lower Rhine.

A "Rhineland" conceptualization did not evolve until the 19th century after the War of the First Coalition, when a short-lived Cisrhenian Republic was established on territory conquered by French troops. The term covered the whole occupied zone west of the Rhine (German: Linkes Rheinufer) including the bridge-heads on the eastern banks. After the collapse of the French dominated West Bank in the early 19th century, the regions of Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg were annexed to the Kingdom of Prussia. In 1822 the Prussian administration reorganized the territory as the Rhine Province (also known as Rhenish Prussia), a term continuing in the names of the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia.

Especially the Eifel area of the Rhineland, as impoverished outskirts of the empire, was called "Prussian Siberia" at those days. There are some locations still called Sibirien in the Rhineland today, e.g. "Sibirische Brühl/Rheinland" in Rhein-Erft-Kreis and "Klein Sibirien Im Muhl", Neuhütten, Rheinland-Pfalz.