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I just wondered... you know how sellers come up with such figures, such as 10% offstruck, 25%, 50% etc. Is there any precise way of calculating how much the offstrike is off by?

OMG banivechi, you rule XD I fail to remember that XD;;;

Jesus. You can knock someone off with that O_O

Not really today, but just a few days ago, there came a form, declaring "PLZ PAY 10% TAX FOR YOUR NUMIS. ITEMS AS THEY ARE TOO EXPENSIVE" <- well obviously it was not phrased this way

Nice buy!!!

Geez, I had too much time on me and I started photoshop from scratch... definately not something that I would touch for quite sometime... Anyways, this is a total "commie" design. Don't ask me why I decided to do one, I just felt like doing one 500kb+ sized file

Geez, that's fast. I think I should try to produce some of my sets I am jealous of Biggandyy's speedy photoshopping techniques

:S I can't tell without the column, it's pretty hard to tell But I am assuming that you are trying to compare between 1956 to 1996...? Seems like the average is like at least 5 fold increase or so... for most of them, if my eyes are right... Probably the coins increase their value by about 8-10% per annum... or so... :|

Sorry, I vote for number 4 ^_^;

OH that massive copper ruble You might be right

Produced together in coperation with the Soviet Leningrad mint and American Bullion and Coins in 1988, this is one massive set and heavy. All of them are 5oz each!!! The coins / medals represent the level of cooperation that had begun between the USSR and the United States in those years. Each coin / medal represents issues of cooperation and freedom in the USSR. 1. Peace and Cooperation 2. INF Summit Treaty Medallion 3. Millennium of Christianity 4. Thousand Years of the Ruble Warning: super large images! Front Image Back Image Appearently, the INF amd the Christianity medals were presented to both President Reagan and General Secrarty Gorbachev. The forth medal served a prototype of the first Soviet silver commemorative coin, which is used in the design of the 1,000 years of the mintage of Russian coins. All these are considered pretty rare, considering all of them except the Peace and the Cooperation medal had a scarce mintage of 1,000 and the "polar bear" one had a mintage of just 10,000. P.S. The Polar bear medal is one of those rare times when an American and a Soviet medallist designed this medal. Obviously, the American designed the polar bear side... Hope you enjoyed it

(continued) This particular coin that I have is pretty funny. Notice how the last digit "5" of the year 1835 is slanted off? It seems that a massive amount of dies were produced with the date "183", and leaving the last year to be fixed later, which probably explains the tilt. The obverse seem to have been hinged somehow, as you can see two tiny shouldered parts on the word "DO/\EU" and "4UCTO|-O" (i'm sorry, I am a bit too lazy to type out cyrillic atm... ) But fortunately, there are NO major damages... And also I got this coin bloody cheap too Nevertheless, there is an major error, if you didn't notice, which is an offstrike error. Pretty hard to find errors in this type of coin, as Russian coinage are supposed to be almost perfected at this time. There is also an edge error, which is pretty suprising. Here are a few super large image files for you to enjoy Caution: Massive size pictures! Obverse: http://img46.echo.cx/img46/785/ruspol15rublefront2vs.jpg Reverse: http://img185.echo.cx/img185/6141/ruspol15rubleback6ey.jpg Edge error: See how there is a double effect after the "o"? Ok, if you didn't manage to see where the error on the reverse has happened, here it is http://img113.echo.cx/img113/9459/ruspol15...ighlight2mp.jpg Hope you enjoyed it!!!

How do you see it as a wine cork? O_O

During Nikolai I's period, a very rare event occured, which made history in the numis. history of both Russia and Poland. The first coinage of the occupied Poland goes as far back to 1815, and in around 1830, there were some Polish rebels that tried to declare their independence, however, they were crushed ruthlessly and hence, there was need of a dual denomination to remind the Polish that the Russians are there. (pretty evil isn't it?) Polish coins Neverthless, the Russians tried to fix the exchange rates, which is then fixed to 3 rubles to 20 zlot, 1.5 rubles to 10 zlots, and so on. There were several denominations, which both silver and gold coins were minted. (no copper coins though) The denominations are as following: 3 rubles-20zlot (gold), the rest are silver: 1.5 rubles-10 zlot, 3/4 rubles-5 zlot, 30 kopeks-2 zlot, 15 kopeks-1zloty minted till 1841 and after 1841, only 25 kopeks-50groszy, 20kopeks-40groszy were minted. Both the Saint Petersburg mint (denoted as H|-) and the Warsaw mint (denoted as MW) minted the coins, but Saint Petersburg mint stopped minted in 1841, letting Warsaw to mint after 1842. Warsaw mint was later renamed to B.M. to mint copper coins after 1850. Alas but not least, this is an example of the LARGEST silver coin ever minted in the Russian silver coin, and also the largest denomination of silver rubles (excluding trial coins ) 1.5 ruble - 10 zlot 1835 Details: Weight: 1 FULL ounce, or 31.1 grams (HEAVY) Edge: SIL(VER) OF 83 1/3 STANDARD 7 ZOL(OTNIKS), 27 21/25 PAR(TS) (post too long, will continue on the next section )

Some links here for you to enjoy Ripped out from Uzedenkov, Russian coins 1700-1917, this is a rather decent book to read. P.S. each of them is about 250kb or so. Pretty big http://img192.echo.cx/img192/6208/rusbookedge017ti.jpg http://img45.echo.cx/img45/6803/rusbookedge029pd.jpg http://img117.echo.cx/img117/5492/rusbookedge038hm.jpg http://img27.echo.cx/img27/6986/rusbookedge042yc.jpg I think I will remove these in a week's time... Enjoy.

Doh Must ask Stujoe or Akdrv...

But but but... aren't you the forum leader? ? Hehehe.

OMG LOL @ bigganddy. That's pretty funny XD It does look similar to the greenback somehow

I wanted the sub folders that we used to have Tane That was really a great one

You know it would be great if we ever had a break down of the list into sub folders that we had before... that was really a great one Tane. This is for Imperial Russia from 1700's Петр I, Царь, Император Всероссийский (с 1682 по 1725) Tsar Peter I Екатерина I, Императрица Всероссийская (с 1725 по 1727) Ekaterina I Петр II, Император Всероссийский (с 1727 по 1730) Peter II Анна, Императрица Всероссийская (с 1730 по 1740) Anna Иоанн VI, Император Всероссийский (с 1740 по 1741) Ioann VI Елизавета, Императрица Всероссийская (с 1741 по 1761) Elizabeth Петр III, Император Всероссийский (с 1761 по 1762) Peter III Екатерина II, Императрица Всероссийская (с 1762 по 1796) Ekaterina II Павел I, Император Всероссийский (с 1796 по 1801) Pavel I Александр I, Император Всероссийский (с 1801 по 1825) Alexsander I Николай I, Император Всероссийский (с 1825 по 1855) Nikolai I Александр II, Император Всероссийский (с 1855 по 1881) Alexsander II Александр III, Император Всероссийский (с 1881 по 1894) Alexsander III Николай II, Император Всероссийский (с 1894 по 1917) Nikolai II ----- Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика (РСФСР) (с 1917 по 1922) RSFSR - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Союз Советских Социалистических Республик (с 1922 по 1991) USSR - Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic Российская Федерация - Россия (с 1991) Russian Federation

OMG damn!!! That's nice!!! You know what? Honestly, I don't even have ANY Nikolai II coins Time to post more pictures of what I got

Another one that deserves to be added in here: Definately not mine, but here it is http://www.triton.vg/ He is definately VERY detailed. Go and check it out!

Brilliant link!

Recent Goldberg auctions. Some of the greatest Russian coins ever offered in this auction. You can stare at it all day long... I am pretty shocked at the prices they are going at, not including the commission fees. Initially they were on eBay as well. Goldberg auctions Enjoy...

Nowadays, coin designs are not taken very seriously, as they are usually flat, or reeded. The reason why? Probably because there is no need for such high technology counterfeiting devices like the 1700-1800 period. During those times, crude strikes existed and such edge "protection" was possibly needed as a counterfeit device. I guess the reason why such technologies are not employed nowadays is because of the high running costs and it is reasonably hard to counterfeit recent design coins. (although Japan's 500 yen (approximately 5 dollar) coin was counterfeited twice in the last 8 years or so ) So going back to the topic, do you know any interesting coin edge designs? I know that France used to be pretty big on this time and this was evident in their franc coins. I think 10 franc was one of them. The most insane one that I know of is this one: LOL WHAT COIN IS THIS?!?!?! You can have a good laugh.