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squirrel

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  1. Thats a VERY nice one! congrats, Sigi! I know you have been after that type for quite a long time. Me too, but this dog does not have enough biscuits to go after one that pretty.
  2. Here there are... nothing fancy, just common more or less Wings Down copper.
  3. I would like to see the nicer one that he, no doubt, replaced it with
  4. Oh, copper Bats? I will rummage through my sock drawer to have a look....
  5. I was photographing my Poltina for the other thread, and decided to take a family portrait.
  6. I wonder if the other copper denominations for 1790 were re dated from 1789 as well, at Ektaterinaburg? It would be fun to go after!
  7. Here is her little sister. 2 Kopek, 1790 over 89. click thumbnail to enlarge.
  8. Yet we eagarly collect old coins with the faces of rulers past who succeeded at doing just that. We are students of History, and now witnessing the latest chapter.
  9. That is a beautiful coin! LEAVE IT ALONE!! you wont ever get the dark spots to match the field's patina. Microscopically, the texture of the corrosion is not as smooth, because the copper has been eaten away and oxidized with a different composition as the undamaged patina surface. I t would have to be polished smooth, and no chemical can do that.
  10. yes but you left out one small detail... what kind of car? perhaps:
  11. logical conclusion: Russian Numismatic trade forum. but what happens when you want to trade, for example Russian for US or other?
  12. not impressed. cough it up, dude. these arent nuclear secrtets. Nuclear secrets arent even secret anymore! You could tell us, but you would have to kill us?....
  13. Well, ebay or molotok...... What was your best win? Not hot and heavy duke it out overbidding, but say, something no one else caught or was willing to bid on, and you got a nice prize for way less than it should have otherwise... Ill start with this one: A nice Peter I Grivna from 1705. Listed as "unidentified coin" in ebay, a few years back. got it for 30 bucks.
  14. I can empathize with you GX... I was laid off as well following the economic crash, a few years ago. It really hurt, and hadnt bought a coin since. Havent sold off.anything I consider "nice". cant bring myself to do that, but I have sold some duplicates. Fortunately, my wife has a steady (but underpaid) job in state government paper pushing, so I tend to my now 5 year old, and have slowly built up a part time business working at home over the magic of the internet. The work comes and goes, and in the meantime i have painted the majority of the inside of my house, and done a little remodeling, done a lot of landscaping, fixed our cars, etc... but at the end of the month, well, lets just say if i want to stay married, I dont buy overpriced russian coins! I still enjoy taking out my collection, admiring the nice ones, re-organizing my trays, and of course keeping them all clean and shiny, especially the 18th c. silver ones, they really shine up nice with a buffing wheel and polish .. I still stalk ebay and the auctions for the dream coins to fill my empty spaces in my trays..... . you never know! plus the hunt is still half the fun, isnt it? meanwhile.....
  15. ok... I'll bite. which ones were fakes? are we talking about the Markov/Baldwin NY Sale here?
  16. beautiful photo. congratulations! Catalog images do not do justice to these coins! Show more, please, all of you!
  17. I think what you are seeing are tool marks or scratches from cleaning. I just dont see a cipher 10K overstrike here, based on the pics.
  18. Sad. Do you at least have visitation rights to your former Platinum?
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