gxseries

That was indeed some of the issues that came out from the discussions. And that is why a few people suggested at least 3 generations of previous issues are to be included as the modern isses, but of course, you can vary the number of generations from countries to countries. Of course we know that some countries actually did reform their coin values just this year, such as Turkey and Romania.

I talked to some other collectors, and some of the best arguments out from that is that anything that's considered legal tender is definately a modern issue. Most probably, the modern issues should include at least 3 sets of previous "legal tender" issued coins, i.e. 3 generations, to make them fairly modern...

80cents? I can print mine as low as 5cents, including the cost of papers and ink per page...

"602 = gxseries (if you want them)" <- Most definately a yes!!! Thanks!!!

Argh... they always forget that it is often the "investors" that have to take real responsibility for the coins that they bought.

Tane is almost 100 years old? o_O wow...

Nevertheless, I still don't understand how Spitzbergen coins are minted accordingly to demand. It seems that for the recent commemorative issues, the Saint Petersburg mint produces only 1001 commemorative coins maximum at any stage, and honestly, I cannot understand to who they are marketed or rather why such an odd mintage. There are two ultra scarce 1kg spitzbergen kilo silver coin minted, but that is supposely trial strikes. For what purposes, we don't know. YES I FOUND THE LINK FOR THAT TRIAL COIN! Trial kilo silver Spitzbergen coin lol @ 9/11 The recent reverse Spitzbergen coins are usually minted about the world events, probably telling people at Spitzbergen how events are occuring around the world... Images can be found at http://www.chervonets.com and under rarities, and keep on hitting next... eventually you will find them.

OH WOW, now that's something neat. Question: *ARE THEY PURCHASABLE IF ONE REALLY WANT THEM SO BADLY? ? *

How about a real general retarded answer, that is, anything that is the 21th century is considered VERY modern, and the rest isn't

Meh, I guess I will try to keep them the best condition they are in right now. I actually do have a dehumidifier back home to keep things as dry as possible since I live in a rather moist house. My dad bought it because he used to have lots of 3.5" and 5.25" floppies (lol @ ancient disks)

lol he sure made a horrible error when he typed in this line: "Let’s sell it while the price is over $42 per troy ounce." THAT might be a good idea for us coin buyers as that will force gold coins prices to go much cheaper in general But in reality, I doubt that is a wise idea. Because BOTH gold and oil are limited natural resources, converting to one resource to another isn't a brilliant idea and eitherwise, both of them are at one of the most expensive prices ever. Trading gold for oil is totally bullish, if not, silly.

1988? Because that's the year that you are born in? ?

Most probably metal plating isses. Pretty common with metal electro plating if you set the heat and temperature wrong...

omg wow. Firstly a death skull depicted on a coin and you have a silver centre coin being circulated? That's pretty rare nowadays...

Hum... a pretty difficult question really... I mean, you have to keep in mind that each country first minted coins in different time frames. I mean, you can go as far back to Roman coins in Europe, but there weren't any coins for other countries at that time. Eventually the whole world got used to the idea of using coins as a mean of payment. Of course, the whole world originally did not use circular coins, or even metallic metals as a mean of payment, which you can probably call it primiative "coins". I guess you can call currency reforms to tell the difference between modern and "old" coins, but that is absolutely absurd, as there are still countries that still produce completely new coins, such as Romania and Turkey this year. I guess my opinion would be that modern in my opinion strongly is reflected in the striking methods. Most certainly Britain, France and Germany were one of the first few earliest countries that had excellent minting techniques deployed in the early 1800's to differentiate the difference between crude and machine striked coins. But, would such a factor determine the difference between modern and "old" coins? One has to remember that the mints took a serious view on how coins had to be properly minted, as in, they cannot mint one coin a lot heavier than the other, and yet call it the same value, i.e. weight control issues. I am edging more towards the defination of modern coinage when politics had a serious view on how coins played a role in the economy, and when serious tests were conducted to make sure that coins were made so that they were not too different from each other, in terms of weight, size and alloy content.

I am assuming either they are mintmarks or actually the initials of mintmasters who worked on the dies. Well, that's for Russian coins, but I don't know much about Italian coins...

Here is an image that I paid around with, I think it is more than a normal coin pressed over it... I see it as an overstrike... but I don't know any coin with that design... I will put an outline of what I can see later when I have time... what a suprise... O_O

The battery would probably last for at least some good 7 year span, but yes it's true that eventually the battery will die out and it will leak... which is definately not a brilliant idea... I doubt if the designers actually went that far to think of the consequences.

Hum... I think I am heading towards collecting uncs or interesting samples, such as overstrikes, errors.

Depends on the countries really... if it's Russian, I am probably a generalist or a specialist... but otherwise, for the other world coins, I am more towards hoarder...

Printed on both sides? Not just some ink smudge? o_O? Some pictures will definately help

Well honestly, I don't have too much problems with 2x2 if let's say if I get coin trays to accodomate the more expensive coins that I want to take proper care of. The thing is that I have 6 coins that refuse to fit in 2x2 because of their massive size I think I am forced to put them in 2.5 x 2.5 for the time being...

But that wouldn't make any sense, you will get the reverse image of the coins...! Which wouldn't create anything like that. I am assuming that either this coin slipped through during the late December '42 and was accidently struck again on January '43 and the mint operators probably went "oops, oh well, can't waste a copper coin" and released it I guess. I was hoping that this person would upload some 600dpi images, which would help to determine the striking on that coin Although I guess I can give a try from his pictures from there

Here is one more interesting coin that you might be interested, link as follows: http://molotok.ru/catalog/view_item.php?id_sell=7614105 2 kopeks no mintmark, presumably novodel. http://molotok.ru/catalog/view_item.php?id_sell=7614103 The rare, or hard to find polushka, and with a rare mintmark. Btw nice coins Tane! (I am so jealous >_< ) That is mine, nothing as nice as Tane's one. But this is an overdate 1798/7 coin, pretty interesting really. Here is the rest of the discussion of the overdate denga

Honestly, I think it's a very difficult thing to say so far. I have at least 6 different samples of overstriked coins and no matter how hard you try to predict the strikes to be, and how the underlaying image could be, it is quite impossible to know at what angle strike would land such odd deformations, hence making overstriked coins quite unique.