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grivna1726

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  1. Does anyone know what is going on with this variety? It looks like some kind of error in the die (an extra diagonal wing? ) but I don't really understand what happened or how it happened.
  2. Nice! This first portrait type of Catherine (with the lace neck ruff) is the design I like most for this ruler. For some reason, the neck ruff was removed from the design in 1766. Does anyone know why this change was made? Thanks in advance for any reply.
  3. Fabulous coin! This poltina is also ex-Brand. He purchased it privately from "St. Louis Stamp & Coin Company" in 1922.
  4. Previously posted but one of my favorites...
  5. Thank you for posting these images and welcome to the forum.
  6. Her decision was clearly not based on artistic merit.
  7. I am not sure what you mean. Is the dress somehow inaccurately rendered? The dress doesn't look radically different from the earlier Scott version to me (and no doubt she had more than just one dress!).
  8. I agree. I find it astounding that Dassier's work on the rouble did not meet with the Empress's approval. To my mind it is, in all its variations, by far the most attractive of all of her coin or medal portraits. Here is the Dassier medal for the founding of the University which IgorS mentioned: LINK Even the Timofei Ivanov coin portrait of 1757-1761 (which replaced Dassier's work), shows Dassier's influence (although the Ivanov version is officially derived from Benjamin Scott's work as ordered by the Empress).
  9. The collection link was originally posted in 2005. In 2007, Sekine's collection was sold at auction and it appears that he has removed the pictures of his collection from his website. You can see some of his coins starting HERE and in the following lots . Click on the images for a closer view. Lots preceding this link were wire money. I don't know if they were Sekine's or not.
  10. It depends upon what your idea of "expensive" is (really). Based upon their rarity, most (in my opinion) are relatively inexpensive as the series is (again, my opinion) underappreciated and undercollected. They are classically beautiful in their design and most were issued in tiny mintages. I like them very much, but do not collect them, because I need to maintain some sort of discipline in my collecting activity.
  11. There is merit in your comments and previously unknown examples of rarities do surface occasionally, but it seems reasonable to question how it has remained completely unknown until now and where it has been all these years.
  12. Thank you for a very helpful and informative reply.
  13. I thought that France usually used a rooster as its symbolic national bird rather than an eagle. I'm wondering if the eagle represents the alliance, rather than France alone?
  14. Thank you for posting this most interesting medal. Coins and medals are numismatically related and often complementary. Coin collections are much enhanced by the inclusion of related medals. I am continually impressed by the research skills and historical appreciation of medal collectors.
  15. They don't make them like that anymore.
  16. Maybe they will come to the rescue here.
  17. That's the trouble I've always had with computers. They insist on doing what I tell them to do and not what I want them to do. It's very frustrating.
  18. Don't give up just yet. This thread seems to have hit dry spots before (one lasted for well over a month) and then resumed.
  19. We actually passed that point some time ago. I think a strong case can be made that Peter II's French-style tresses (see my avatar coin) were not his natural hair. Ditto for the Leopold (the Hogmouth) coins posted by worldcoinguy. That 1697 sixpence posted by ElleKitty is probably another. Frank's 1696 jeton is for sure.
  20. Wonderful poltina!!! ;) And super grivna, squirrel! Here is a 1700 denga... Now who has a 1699 pattern poltina?
  21. Maybe. Or it could be a grivennik flan that somehow ended up in a polupoltinnik press and was struck, then fed into the 10 kop press & overstruck as the correct denomination.
  22. Here's a copper kopek with a small clip... I think I need to clean my scanner.
  23. Thank you. I am glad you like them. Of the various portraits of Peter I seen on his coins, the design used on the 1707 poltinnik is my favorite. On to 1706...
  24. That's a really neat error coin.
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