STEVE MOULDING

Josh, if you bid you get the PR with your letter saying you did/did not win. If you didn't bid you can get a PR from a friend. I believe I have all them now, thanks to other friends who send me copies when I don't participate. email me if you need something.

NIce

Give a man a fish or teach a man how to fish

23mm http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=70591

$9,600.

Both? No, slab is real...the graders are out to lunch.

A very reasonable guess

Don't know of Tolstoi anywhere online; if you hear otherwise please let me know. Speaking of which, I spent a very enjoyable five hours today going through boxes of original catalogs including Tolstoi (1913), Hermitage Duplicates (1911), Tschumakoff (1908), and Gloy (1907) sales (and quite a few others from that period including a couple of Kubes).

Hey, I didn't bring up Avestas...ask Alex

My Avesta. Not the best obviously, but better than nothing.

I don't. But probability says 1724

No, not new. It holds a very special place in my collection. I bought it years ago from Mr. Margolis. The reverse is equally red. I declined a $1000 offer for it some years back.

Beautiful 1734 Denga over a Square-Box Kopeck of 1724 Lots of Red and the 'O' of the boxed under-coin legend is clearly visible in the left eagles wing.

There's no study active, but a quick peek at the number of EM 2K sales I have so far for these dates shows: 1867ЕМ 17 1868ЕМ 30 1869ЕМ 70 1870ЕМ 73 1871ЕМ 25 1872ЕМ 49 1873ЕМ 27 1874ЕМ 34 1875ЕМ 55 1876ЕМ 9 I've hardly touched Alexander II (many hundreds more records await), but this gives a basic idea already . The 1872EM seems quite normal. For the mathematical among you, the plot of "coins seen" vs "mintage figures" shows an 80% correlation using a zero-intercept constrained linear regression. The only obvious outlier is the 1868EM (should see more like 55 at that mintage) [interpret with the usual caveats regarding official mintage figures]. Steve

http://staraya-monet...m13/topic18761/

Wow! Where did all the 1789MMs come from? Very rare coin 1768MM is much harder to find than most guidebooks think. Mine came from the Soentsby sale (like my 1761MM).

I have Soentsby's 1761MM. I thought I had another but I can't see it. Maybe at the bank. ...just found the invoice. I definitely have another. Now where is it....

All links now working. Thanks.

OK, yes. lit.mdb is now there. The link to rnspics is fixed http://rnsdb.x10.mx/rnsdb/coins/rnspics.zip but can you check the file is there. I can't see it. Thanks, Steve

On http://rnsdb.x10.mx/rnsdb/coins/coinsdl.xhtml lit.mdb is missing (no such file http://rnsdb.x10.mx/rnsdb/coins/lit.mdb) rnspics.zip links to a local file C:/RNS/x10%20web/medals/rnspics.zip and so also can't be found Steve

The '1793 2 kopeeks AM' went for $76....less than 10% of what the real thing would cost.

Lot of family roubles lately. Kuenker had that set earlier this year. Big money too as I recall.

Thanks Alex. The 1740 pattern rouble went for 3.6 million? Did I read that correctly?

My anti-virus software blocks the page. Even after I try an override it refuses, saying the page has a malicious phishing link. Probably just as well I can't access it :-)