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While discussing the recent Künker sale the Polushka 1800/799 was considered an overdate every time the coin turns up. Here´s the only other counterpart that I know of where 3 digits have been altered. This to my knowledge is a rare variety.

Very nice

Congratulations. But isn't it over 1798?

Sigi

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Here's an unusual item. Russian rouble turned into a commemorative token?

The inscription is in English - dated 1 December 1899. I can't quite make out the name:

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574633083&toolid=10001&campid=5335826004&customid=&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg&icep_item=110664249531

The inscription reads

APrenzlau

1.December 1899

Prenzlau sounds pretty German. There is a town near Berlin by that name and Prenzlau exists also as a German surname. December was the German spelling in 1899 (it since has become Dezember). The dot following the 1 is the German way to write the date.

The item is located in Lithuania.

Many Germans (or their descendants) then lived in Russia and especially in the Baltic region of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania which then belonged to Russia. Russian coins circulated there. And that explains IMHO a German graffito on a tsarist rouble. Sigi

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The one difference I notice from the OP's coin and the one from the auction catalogue is that the upper and lower portions of the numeral 0 are heavier on the OP's coin. It might help to see a colour enlargement of the date area on the piece, since it is in greyscale it is more difficult to discern subtle differences in metal flow that might have been affected if the date was indeed modified.

As 1976 is suspected to have been the host coin it would be helpful to compare it.

Could anyone contribute a picture of a well preserved 1976?

Sigi

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Is the mint indication on the edge?

Yes

Hi, literature says that these were minted in Ekaterinburg and Sestrorezk. Bitkin lists each of the 2 mints and uses exactly the same picture for each of them. I don't read Russian and have no access to Russian literature or forums. Have there been attempts to distinguish the two? There are, however distinct variants, take alone the style of the 5 in the date. All my Catherine II Sestrorezk 5kop coins (1763,1764,1765,1766) have wide netting on the edge, different from EM's narrow netting. Are there 1758-- 5 kop with wide netting and could that indicate the CM mint? See my coin below. From one reason or another it has an old plug at the right of the 58, and on the eagle side correspondingly at the left of the scepter. Has anyone an explanation for that? Thank you everybody for your comments to come. Sigi

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