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Did anyone think to 'over-strike' another coin?  Seems to me a 2-euro piece would fit nicely...

Hahahaha overstrike!!! That would be so neat!!!!!!!!!

Maybe a 5 euro cent would be perfect for that purpose. I would love to see interesting overstriking

Here is another two links that you might find it interesting. My coins are something like that too, both unifaced, except that mine isn't gold plated.

1988 Trial 50 ruble Gold Coin

1989 Trial 50 ruble Gold Coin

What do you think

Grrrrrrr 7/7 is my birthday and I was tempted to pick the same day

Oh well, I will be horrible and put in the date 12 July 2005

My first guess was 8,765 (you can find it in the earlier post)

Second guess: 18,765

Seen it, a great site

Welcome! We wouldn't bite but we may eat newbies ;P *just kidding*

Don't worry, ask any questions and you are perfectly safe ^_^

http://www.pcgs.com/grading_list.chtml Fees are somewhat like that. It's only recommanded if you really think your coins are worth quite a fair bit, or else encapsulating can cost more than the coins itself at times.

It WOULD help if you could post some pictures, you have been asking the same question for quite some time.

That is why we have a forum here

I have recently posted a site, it is still in draft stages bu it has many links for those interested in Australian coins.

 

Australian Coin information

Eh hi, just wondering, aren't you hot-linking some of the webpages off from another user? More specificially from Australian Stamps and Coins

I don't know if they are yours; but if it isn't, hot-linking is definately not appericated in all communities and that site is definately copyrighted.

(Grrr... I still can't figure out how to use the quote function Tried to quote Sir Sisu )

Yes, they are ridiciously expensive nowadays, I don't know what is causing them to explode in values within just TWO years

I'm assuming that the Russians are getting rich nowadays...

Suprisingly, that 1757 coin was lost ages ago No coin catalogues have a picture of it, except for a novodel.

I guess I only call this the first, because the Kolyvan gold mine commemorative coin is just too little to be considered for any type of circulation, or almost meaningless sometimes. I mean, 1000 coins is like... a Tsar could have invited that much people into his parties, and given them all out, just like the Marriage ruble. But yes, the Kolyvan gold coin is probably the first.

The first Imperial Russian Commemorative coin ever minted in Saint Petersburg.

A fairly difficult coin to get hold of, but still relatively easy compared to the rest of the Imperial Russian commemorative coins.

There exists proof qualities like the above picture, (it may not seem to be like a proof coin, but it is!!!) but they are exceeding scarce, if not almost impossible to locate.

P.S. I do have a book about this, which my friend and I translated. I think Tane will be the first one here to read about it.

Time for harder metals... like... steel, nickel, tungsten...

I'm pretty sure gold would be the best option as it is a soft metal too... I guess it's too cost prohibitive.

Hehehe, well I paid less than 100USD, so I am quite happy. I was almost prepared to blow off parts of my collections to get it.

Well I don't know if it is a genuine trial coin or not, but who knows. It even has the MMD mintmark on it to make it look horribly similar to the official coin.

*geez, it's so odd!!! My russian coins have so many stories to tell!!!*

WOW that's neat!!! Never knew!!! Now only if I could try out the die that I have... *ahem* A broken die that I have...

OH lol no, it's definately not gold. I am suspecting that it's nickel-bronze or some kind of alloy, but I definately never ever seen similar like this.

It is actually two different planchets, so they are both one-sided.

Well I don't know, if it is really a fantasy issue, but it looks too horribly similar to the official one that is issued later. All details like the Kremlin and the details of the angel...

All I get from the seller is that he / she got it from some Moscow coin dealers... so I don't know if that helps.

OH wow never knew!!! O_O You rule!!!

OMG nice euro commemorative coin hoard

Good question, how on earth do you slab coins? :/? I thought those plastics are pretty expensive... I mean, the cutting tools... I don't know how much they can cost...

Special coins that are minted strictly to collectors, or sometimes out to the public because of some special occasion, such as the anniversary of some events.

Agreed, unless you like to buy books just by their cover page alone, regardless of the contents.

Really tricky from that picture. Look, there is obviously a catch to this and you failed to see what is going on. He did say that if it's a PCGS holder, didn't he? There is a reason why PCGS has a brand name to it, and although it's service quite expensive, their analysis are usually very anal or rather sometimes unfair to people from time to time, but they are usually fairly accurate, rather than some quick-to-scam-cheap-and-make-ebay-sellers-happy companies. Usually those companies have a tendency to grade their coins around 3 grades higher, which obviously have a great value impact.

As for the value, and the grade of it, I believe BiggAndyy can answer that better than I can.

Ebay can be quite a scam site if you don't know how to read things properly...

You, Tane and Sir Sisu are like the main people who come in here. The rest rarely do come though, probably from time to time

Grr... if you had any Russian coins for offer, I would most probably fallen for it...