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I'm never a fan of gold for whatever reason it is. Bought a 1900 5 ruble gold coin and sold it within a week for a mere 100USD or something like that. Still don't regret it. Guess the best is to lower your expectation to 5 ruble gold coin as they are more plentiful and cheaper. Thing is, I'm pretty sure most buyers are more than happy to hoard them at 400usd each in decent condition and resell them at a profit. Just the way supply and demand is.

Very nice overdate indeed. Congradulations!

BKB - I had my fair share of this ugly verdigris with Russian copper coins and I know too well what it's like. It's just unfortunate that the more you try to deal with it, it seems to leave ugly pockmarks. I wasted a couple of nice overstruck coins over that. I think it is more undesirable unless you are happy with that. The secret ingredient of olive oil is that it is slightly acidic and that is why it seems to be able to remove verdigris bit by bit. I would rather see a coin being conserved over a period of time instead of the patina stripped within mere seconds. Ruins value dramatically at the same time. Congradulation with the 1791 5 kopek. Looks like the mintmark is large size as well. I like it! I'm actually happy to experiment with verdicare and give it a go with what happens with 18th century Russian copper coins. I have no reply from anyone regarding about sending liquids overseas especially with the dumb scare over sending possible concoction of liquids becoming explosive.

Bob, try page 3. Again, I want to try this product but I have trouble getting it sent to Australia. It's not right for me to recommend a product that I personally haven't even tested but seeing the reviews, I thought I might as well give it a note. The most important thing is, it should remove a bit of verdigris BUT at the same time, NOT strip the patina which ruins everything.

Might want to give verdicare a go BKB. Please try it on cheaper coins first before trying on more expensive ones! http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62434

If your camera can take more than 3MP, or at least 5MP and I'm not talking about mobile phones, you should be able to take reasonable photos. First set your white balance - it's important to pick a good "white color" as there's many shades of white. You must balance your color contrast under the light that you are going to shoot and it should be done before you take photos. Try to have a bright area so that you can lower your ISO - I usually use ISO 200 or 100 but you wouldn't want to shoot it ISO400 as it becomes blurry. You can then change your background to black or whatever but remember use the same background until you are happy to play around. It's ok to shoot thousands of photo until you get a better idea of how your camera works. It might help if you get a camera stand or if you can't, use the macro mode, 10 sec timer and have a steady hand. I usually use black background. Otherwise you can always adjust the color contrast using software later. What's important is to have steady hands. You can always adjust minor color difference later but you can't do much about blurry photos.

Try http://www.google.com/a/coinpeople.com

Very nice. Maybe I should get one too since I'm working in a mining industry

I'm not too sure what the drama is so please kindly explain to me in more details. When you mean by mint sets - are these specifically packed by the Royal Mint or it's just packed under "Cayman Island Monetary Authority" (somewhere along those words). This makes a huge difference. From what I understand, it's the monetary authorities that decide to award the contract to who can strike coins at the best price or best suited to their contracts. Best example is New Zealand. Contrary to what you may know, New Zealand mint is NOT government owned and DOES NOT strike regular coins for New Zealand. Instead, they have awarded several contracts to a few countries, namely South Africa, Australia, Canada and I think England is in it as well. Coming back to the point, if these coins are not packed by the Royal Mint, I don't see why all Cayman Island coins must be struck in the Royal Mint.

I reckon this guy's site is pretty awesome when it comes down to world's "dime": http://dewardt.net/

All coins would be unique... Inspired from this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70349851@N00/4018610098/ Just something random when I was looking at knives. I own a Damascus knife myself and was thinking if planchets were made in such patterns - might be pretty interesting. Damascus is used to describe the wavy grained pattern of two or more different metals mixed together and hand struck. Mokume gane is similar to it and more exotic metal is used. More readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokume-gane Now why am I sensing some micro or African nations are going to strike coins in such patterns very soon...

one-kuna, if you have any genuine 1970 5 kopek which you claim is "not rare" for sale under 100 dollars, please let me know.

I bought this 5 kopek coin dated 1970 and this particular coin is a rather tough key date. I didn't think much about this coin but was happy as it is a tough key date that I was looking for a while. However when I glanced at the photo I took, there is a "scratch" on the number "0" which for one second I thought was a possibility of a re-engraved 6 to 0. It would honestly suck but I have no other examples of a 1970 or 1976 5 kopek to compare it with. What do you think?

Thanks for bringing this thread up guys. I just remembered getting two 10 kopek coins last week but never got around taking photos. The hunt is officially over: The one on the left unfortunately is a counterfeit as it doesn't have any silver in it. Made me wonder if that actually did circulate and fooled a lot of people. Would be an interesting contemporary counterfeit.

Here are the other two: not spectacular but these were pretty cheap back then. If you look hard enough, you might be lucky to find one for around 70USD in low grade condition. I was trying to upgrade the 5 kopek but look at the price: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=330435584062

Now these are going to stretch it a bit but I'll post them anyways

I had to look through what I had. That said, I haven't uploaded all of my banknote pictures yet. Here's a few: see323 has already posted some of the nicest Singapore bird notes as well as the Japanese yen.

Whatever that's in here: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Generally Japanese, Korean, Russian, a bit of Chinese these days and then circulating coins in Australia.

Was looking at ebay.de and here's one example of 10 kopek: http://cgi.ebay.de/10-Kopeken-1799-Russlan...=item5886b5e919 Looks like the other 10 kopek was a bargain!

Candidate: Very nice! Don't think I'll see anything better for a while. Thanks for showing

WOW. Nice coins BKB! Thanks for showing

240USD for that?! I'm pretty sure I bought all 5 Paul I rubles for that much years before Have to look for it at some other time. Anyone with any Paul I silver coins? Speaking of which, I don't even have a full set of Paul I copper coins.

Paul I (1797-1801) silver coinage seems to be a huge challenge to locate even though it was struck for good 5 years. While obtaining a type set of Paul I copper coins seem to be easy other than the polushka, the silver set seems to be a complete different story. It's so difficult that even locating them can be a real pain. I am guessing that if you want to assemble a general silver type set, it maybe easier and cheaper to buy all types of Paul I copper coins including all mintmarks other than the rare mule denga/polushka coin. Of course, the efimok silver coin is out of the story - it's just too expensive. I personally find the poltina and polupoltinnik to be near impossible to find at a reasonable price. I'm happy enough with damaged examples until I find something that's within my budget: 5 kopek 10 kopek Polupoltinnik This is an extremely lucky find - just a dollar! I'm not going to complain considering how difficult it is to find in any example. I don't think I'm going to look for the other variety... Poltina This one was from a local coin dealer. Tooled etc but still hard to find. Ruble At one stage, I had 5 of these rubles and decided to sell a couple since I just can't keep them all. Not too sure why I had that many even though I'm not a fan of Paul I's simplistic design. Now look at the prices Please feel free to share your Paul I silver coins. I remember a forum member here showed off his efimok a while ago. Edited to add in the 10 kopek image