Doesn't look like gold to me:
Medal commemorating Peter I and the renaming of Leningrad to St. Peterburg
The same, except with Catherine II on the obverse

I posted asking about these earlier.

I think they are probably privately issued medals. The rendition of the Soviet arms without hammer and sickle is not one I can recall seeing elsewhere. The use of German in the inscription suggests a non-Russian origin.

The seller also has some other questionable items such as this "novodel", claimed to be struck in "gold", of the 1757 10 roubles (Scott portrait).


I doubt the authenticity of his Peter III Moscow rouble as well.


Then there's his "Constantine rouble"...

If they were genuine Soviet gold medals they would have the AU mark and something with the fineness and weight on them. I have a genuine gold Tolstoy medal from the 1970's, and it has all the appropriate marks. BTW GXSERIES has a poster with these medals on them, he has had it imaged and posted it here on forum last year.

So you did ... sorry I had overlooked your message; I was in the States at the time and didn't keep up with all messages as I normally would have.

Good catch about the German inscriptions ... I totally overlooked that as well. At any rate, I reported both of these to German eBay. Might be a good idea to report them to ebay.com as well.

Thanks for the prompt replies!

This same seller recently sold this junk to a buyer in Russia for $3,500:

1) Ruble of Konstantin seller used picture from the book of Museum, I don't remember which one but I will find out then I will be at home(I remember visible h those picture was published )
2)The edge from other coin.
Very bad seller

Maybe from the set of Hermitage cards?

Anyway, he's supposedly offering a $600,000+ coin (if memory is correct, Markov sold one for about $650,000 a few years ago) for less than $5,000 as a "Buy It Now" listing.

Yeah, sure he is...

A seller to be avoided; he (she?) has been discussed in other threads. The reason
for the "she" is that when I corresponded with this seller two or three years ago she
claimed to be the widow of a collector who was an expert in Russian coins.

RWJ