STEVE MOULDING

Well, it's possible I missed an 1842СПБ 2K recently; I certainly don't recall seeing one and have no records that they even exist. Also, I just checked m-dv.ru (who cover Baldwin, Markov and many others) and numsimat.ru and they have nothing in their archives that I can see. They're not comprehensive though, and one may have slipped through the cracks. Or maybe yours is the only one! If anyone else has records of any example please let us know. For coin images, I'm actually very happy with my $100 scanner. I've tried using a camera, tripod, light tent, everything, and could never get results anywhere near acceptable. The camera setup also took *much* longer with lots of messing around. Everything on russiancoin.com was taken using my scanner. I especially like how the wire money comes out.

Yes, I've seen 3 1841s, but not an 1842

1842СПБ 2K? Very interesting....I've never seen one. Please show!

I sold this one not long ago ex AUREA, Sale 7, May 2003, Lot 1439 Buyer paid $50. Not the best condition, obviously, but I'd agree, you don't see them very often.

Heritage Sale 425 in Jan 2007 lists an 1838EM Novodel. I have the images and will post.

Now that looks familiar

Yep; I concur. First is fake.

Some weights for regular strikes (not Novodel) from a Hungarian catalog I was just perusing: 1831EM-FX 5K 23.69g 1833EM-FX 5K 22.13g 1838CM 5K 23.57g

Ah...the 1830 Novodels. I wrote about these in that 45-page article (Copper of Nicholas I) that I did for JRNS last year. There are some weights and more information there.

Very nice! One of my favourite areas :-) One correction, you can find Elizabeth-over-Ivan roubles starting in 1741 (not 1742). I have one. Best, Steve

By the way...one of the Heidelberg catalogs had a nice 1806 AT 2 Abaz (R4) including a photograph.

Yes, you're quite right. So many catalogs, so little time....

Who...Heidelberg? That's not beginner material

I located more than 50 Auction Catalogs on the Heidelberg site with Russian Material. Catalog dates range from 1930-1944. Some minor, but some spectacular. The list, with all the links, is here: http://russian-coin-...idot.com/latest Total size of the PDFs is around 1.4 GB Steve

For regular image files (jpgs and the like) yes. What I was referring to are "images" which are assembled from mini-pieces scattered around a server and reassembled in the browser through flash. You don't know where the pieces are, and you don't know the assembly algorithm, therefore you don't get the image. What you can do, of course, is take a sceeenshot. I did that for one of the larger russian sales a couple of years ago, coin by coin, after they switched to this new technology. Tedious.

If you can see a photo on just about any website, then you can almost certainly download it. Naive protections like 'disable right click' , or flickrs "user has disabled saving photos" can be simply bypassed. There are technologies that websites can use to get around this problem, but they're complex and 99 times out of a 100 it's just not worth the effort.

Ah. The material in the catalog, not the catalog date. Got it. Online access to summary information and research tools for anybody. Nothing commercial. I've covered costs so far across the catalog and translation wikis and the RNS website. And yes I think dealers would encourage these efforts, much like our US-based dealer friends encouraged and supported the RNS.

OK. Thanks Ron. BTW, what is the 19thC catalog you're referring to? Availability of catalogs and prls on my wiki site refers to what I have personally. For the older catalogs this usually means physical catalogs (I have shelves of catalogs and more in storage, many not in the wiki). A few older catalogs have been scanned, or I've found a pdf somewhere, and the possession of a PDF usually noted. These online Heidelberg scans will certainly save a lot of work! For newer auctions, I will more likely have pdfs (and sometimes paper) There are many wiki entries for catalogs and/or prices-relaized I don't have. I had this vision (a couple of years ago) of having a central russian numismatic auction catalog library for open research use (copyright issues notwithstanding). Like m-dv.ru but for the older material. I'm still thinking on and off about that. I thought people could then contribute their own pdfs of catalogs or prices, or mail them to me to be scanned (and returned). The wiki format is not perfect. Overall I like it, especially the interaction experience in the final product, but editing correctly is only for advanced users.

Felix Schlessinger Auction (Feb 1934) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schlessinger1934_02_27bd3

Ron, do you have the prices realized for the Duplicates or the initial valuations? For some Hess auctions I thought I had a PRL only to find it was the set of estimates. The russian auction wiki http://russian-coin-...ct.wikidot.com/ is far from complete and I expect your information is much more complete. It started out a couple of years ago and I had a lot of help from our literature expert Mr. Kuna. Also, Brekke's handwritten notes (some of which have been transcribed on the wiki) and the JRNS auction watches and articles on auction literature were invaluable sources. Some of the pages have '+' symbols where you can expand auction details to see notable lots etc. Sadly, I got pulled away, though, as other commitments called over the past year. Time to pick things up again

It's true

Very nIce Alex! Better than mine

Auction summaries added to the wiki: http://russian-coin-...ikidot.com/hess http://russian-coin-...ikidot.com/cahn

Great links! A couple of others with Russian Material: Adolph Hess Nachfolger Auction 202 (1930) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/hess_nachf1930_10_28 Auction 217 (1933) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/hess_nachf1933_07_11bd2 Adolph E. Cahn Auction 66 (1930) http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cahn1930_05_06 Looks like they have a lot more and I'm only just starting to explore

Wag link: http://www.wag-aukti....de/auktion-en/ I see 20 lots at Auction 62, under Ausland / Russland-Georgien. I like these too, though I think I have only one example. I have more Crimean (1191) copper of various denominations (though still not a lot).