I know, this could have been easily in the Errors forum, but I want to see specifically Russian error coins

I'll start with some of mine:

1720 Peter I ruble:

Assuming if this is a genuine coin - edging shows the year 1719 instead

1730 Anna ruble:

Seems to be at least double struck over some unknown planchets.

1730 Denga:

Rotated error, probably off by 15 degrees.

1731 Denga

Struck on brockage planchet.

1747 Polupoltinik

Die crack at the bust area.

1748 Polushka

Slightly off struck - could be common at that time.

1769 5 kopeks

Severely overweight at 76.4 grams

1800 1 ruble

Clipped planchet

1811 2 kopeks

Die crack at reverse and notice in the obverse how the horizontal line is slanting towards the bottom left

1814 2 kopeks

!@#$%^&*() I was just too drunk to strike coins!

1822 5 kopeks

Die clash

1835 1.5rubles-10zlots

Seems to be a double strike or die adjustment as well as minor edging problem.

1840 half kopek

Off strike.

1842 1 ruble

Die crack

1863/1 5 kopeks

Die clash

The rest will be Soviet and modern Russian era coins.

RSFSR 1921 50 kopeks

Die clash

USSR 1980 20 kopeks (Special thanks to Kuhli):

Die clash

USSR 1984 15 kopeks

Die clash

USSR 1988 1 ruble Novodel

Serious year dating error

Russia 1993 50 rubles Far Eastern Stock

Metal plug error

Not too sure if there are more error Russian coins but I guess that's all for now

gxseries, I wonder if your 1842 rouble has an overstruck date (1842/1)? It looks so similar to mine, including the die cracks:



There is also a cud or blunder of some kind on the "4". And I am always amazed to look at the massive die polish marks all over the place.

Here is the link to other pictures of that coin:
1842/1-ACh rouble

Now that's an impressive die crack throughout the whole coin!

Here are larger crappy photos that I took some time ago - I don't have the coin at the moment:




I don't think mine is an overdate from the photograph I see. What is even odd is the edging of the coin. It seems like it was accidently struck twice:



Now I wished I had the coin with me to make a better comment

I just realized that your rouble is the 8-bud variety whereas mine has 7 buds, so they were struck from different dies in any case!

The eagle reverse seems to be the same, and there are no misspellings, making yours Julian #1082 and mine Julian #1080 (is that right, RW? ).

As to the edge lettering, mine looks similar to yours. I believe the quality of the edge devices must not have been so great at the time. However, double edging was known to have occurred. In those cases -- at least on copper coins, according to Brekke -- the result is usually quite illegible.

Geez, it sure shows my greatest ignorance on variants. I personally have yet to pick a copy of Julian's works (apologizes in advance - will do eventually). (Yes, at the same time, I should shamed for using Uzdenikov's book as a sole bible )

I bought this coin in the past and didn't really care for the variants - only because it was less than 25USD or something like that.

Now another question: Which is the rarer variant?

R.W. Julian's book is fairly difficult to find in the normal channels (book stores, amazon.com, etc.). Although it is listed on the Amazon web site, I believe it always says "Currently not available". I never saw it up for auction on eBay in the past two years, either. I got mine from Bob Reis' website ... don't know if he still has any more copies, though. His site is full of unusual stuff, both numismatic and otherwise, and refreshingly unconventional. I recommend paying it a visit sometime!

But since Bob Julian himself looks in here once in a while, maybe he can give us a link or an address?

Although Bob Julian mentions the overdates in the preliminary section of his catalogue, he doesn't give them an individual identifying number. However, Krause does (surprise, surprise!) and lists prices for the overdate at about 10%-20% above that of the regular variety.

Of course, there are a total of 13 varieties for 1842-ACh and 4 varieties for 1842-MW listed in the Julian catalogue, and all but about 4 of the ACh varieties are scarce or rare. Krause (and Uzdenikov) just can't keep up there!

The book is available from Alex Basok; Dmitry Markov and World-Wide Coins of California (James Elmen) may also still have copies on hand.

RWJ

His is #1082 (as noted) but yours is #1087; perhaps the easiest way of determining the eagle in this case is looking at the 5 feathers over the claw holding the scepter.

RWJ

1759MM 5 Kopeck
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Here is one more legend error on Peter II rouble. "PERT'" instead of "PETR'" in the beginning of the legend.

That's a really neat coin.

You'd think they'd spell the Tsar's name properly, especially when it was one that consisted of only 4 letters!