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Hum, seems like my post is getting a bit outdated. Imperial Russian coins were quite plentiful last year, or more specifically before the platinum price spiked. And I really do regret the time when I saw a battered up 3 ruble coin 400USD 2 years ago... Right now, the platinum bullion in the coin alone can easily hit 250-300USD, and so such coins are getting fairly expensive by the day... But yes, don't dispair, I will try to ask my dealers here. The last time I saw such platinum coin online is here: http://www.coinvault.com but as you can see, he just recently sold such coin (but battered). I think you can email and ask if he has any in reserve... Hum.. the Russian auction site doesn't have any 3 ruble coin for sale right now...

Most certainly a beauty... who knew that such a coin would be considered exceeding rare when these coins were considered as "cheap" metals during those times...

There is a coin dealer down here that is currently selling a 3 platinum ruble. If I am not wrong, his is a 1832 3 ruble aUNC, around 3000USD or something, but don't quote me. If you are looking for the 6 and 12 ruble one, you might be better off looking at an international coin auction house because they are extremely scarce. What kind of price range are you looking about? :|

OMG prices are insane for this ruble: http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=...jEwMDQjbG90NDA3 http://www.stacks.com/viewlot.php?auction=...jEwMDQjbG90NDA4 Both of them are from Stack's Feb 2005 auctions... shocking prices... :| More of a suprise that it easily exceeded the estimated prices...

One of the more complicated design of the Imperial Eagle, as quite a lot of details are crammed into the wings. The following coin is one of the better samples that I have, except that this coin seems to have a die crack at the bottom at the reverse, which is quite unusual around this period of time. Don't expect to find such cracks easily... I think I have an unusual sample... as always... Enjoy!

Probably this is a bit more realistic: Except that I don't know if this is genuine or not...

Two other overstriked coins that I come across today, pretting interesting: 1894 GUATEMALA PESO over 1865 PERU UN SOL 1804 British Bank Dollar over Spanish 1780s 8 Reales

This: How I wished they were gold and silver or gold or some other precious metal bi-metal coins... Anyways, these are the 10 ruble coins that were minted this year... the Kazan and Kaliningrad coins...

Here is another link of such coin... I don't know if this is a fake one, but it seems pretty real... except that I still don't have high quality scans of a genuine one... assuming if mine happened to be a fake http://cgi.ebay.com/RARE-Korea-5-Teal-1893...1QQcmdZViewItem

Thanks to Banevichi, I got this coin quite cheap: Originally it was like this: And right now, it's a lot better, Removed parts of the disgusting green "algae"...

XXXXXXXXXL scan size (overaggerated I guess ) But yes, anyways, here are my scans of the two Alexandrine ruble coins that I have. One is a total banged up F+ coin and the other is somewhat a proof or prooflike coin (or a mishandled proof if you like to call it). P.S. Note of the hair detail on the obverse and the column details at the reverse. They are very stunning... Banged up version: High Quality version: Once again, looking at the column, from the bottom, you have the finest details of the gates, then the crest, supposingly you should be able to see some emblem and then you see some criss-cross sign on the column. At the top of the column, you see an angel on the cross. You can even see the details on the feather!!! Pity that the head is just a dot, but honestly, this is an image that I blew up to 400% of the original size; the original size of the coin is only approximately 36mm!!! A ruble that you must get... provided that the price is just right...

Hahaha

I honestly don't know why Osaka though. It's true that both Paris and Brussels were occupied in WWI. The timing of the Osaka kopeks to me is just completely imcomprehensible, or rather, was St. Petersburg mint too overloaded? It's true that by that time, they were forced to stop their gold ruble mintage and Imperial Russia was economically going downhill. Was ordering such mass coins overseas a lot cheaper than self producing? I guess this is going to be a lot of speculation... P.S. I think I have found an interesting link worth reading, but you need acrobat reader. http://www.esh.ed.ac.uk/EH2_RUS/Lecture1.PDF

Definately can't tell from that ultra small jpg. I honestly thought it was some sort of arabic coin from the first look...

If I am not wrong, Russia's early trial coins were made overseas around 1870s or so. But you must remember that Ekaterninburg's technology was just too outdated that Saint Petersburg had to overtake the striking of copper coins, which means that St. Petersburg production lines were not capable of striking both silver, gold and copper at the same time. (geez, that's sure a lot) Note that the Ekaterninburg mint production last ended at 1876, and in 1890s, there was another currency reform, which probably caused people to hoard as much coins as possible for a brief while. Why Paris and Brussels? I still do not understand up to know though... far less reason why Osaka mint too for the 10 and 15 kopeks of 1916...

Thank you, thank you! It's a book that was compiled after at least one year's worth of research notes. I still have a few more copies of it, if anyone still wants one, I can still offer them to you.

At least you managed to notice the cyrillic font, that's a good sign. I.e. "N" & "R" in the reverse.

New overstriked coin! Described by the seller: "Very interesting 1757 Elizabeth 2 kopecks in VF! Three coins in one! This coin was struck over Baroque kopecks 1756. The year of mintining and MMD (Moscow mint) along with all details of host coin are clearly visible. The traces of bis-host coin - cross 5 kopecks of 1723-30 type are also visible on rider site of the coin." Very interesting!

Wow nice! Congradulations!

I had a few questions over some of the coins that I had, and people wondered if I am ever going to sell them... well that's some of the general questions that I had. It was funny when I got some mails from Russians, or rather I even sold one to a Russian before. The scans are as follows: Never too sure if the 1839 ruble is a genuine one or a fake one. I am more than sure that the 1914 Gangut ruble is a fake one but oh well... I am happy to have one... I could have uploaded a larger image for both of them but it was about 25mbs each side, so I didn't bother... Enjoy...

Hum? Maybe the steel penny was one of the few few coins that went through after the last few copper pennies were struck, so it had a bit of copper plating? Who knows.

Ouch, I am out of luck I ruined a Japanese 1894 die at the same time. It is quite rusty and I am on my way to restore it at the moment...

Wow! What beauty!!!

Most definately not. That seems to be a genuine coin.

Oh wow wait, this is something interesting that I have found at the same time. http://www.coinauthentication.co.uk/newsletter2.html Enjoy