QUOTE(alexbq2 @ Dec 13 2007, 12:24 AM)
Gentlemen, I salute you. I've just found this forum and read through some recent discussions, and was immensely impressed by your level of expertize, and also your sight. That MM 2 Kop piece looked like the lunar surface to me the entire discussion. I hope, I can rely on you for the questions I may have in the future.
For now I would like to ask you about something I just saw on eBay. I did not know that there were any wire kopeek novodels around. Does anyone know if these are real, and where I could find some information about them?
(hope these links are still good)
Welcome to coinpeople!
The links are not showing up in my browser right now. Hopefully that is because the server is temporarily off-line and not because the links have been removed.
If you have pictures of the coins in question saved on your computer, you could also upload them to
http://www.imageshack.us/ and then post those links here.
I don't know much about wire money and have unfortunately lost touch with an old friend who does. The wire money is Russia's medieval coinage and really a separate series from the 18th century and later reformed coinage that fascinates me.
There were some gold kopeks and dengas struck during this period which are probably more military awards than actual coinage. I have seen novodels of some of these for coins dating as far back as the reign of Michael Romanov (1613-45).
There are probably also novodels of the silver wire money, but this is not an area that I know well and I could be mistaken. I think Spasskii might show some in his book ("The Russian Monetary System"), but it has been a long time since I read it and sometimes my memory plays tricks on me.
