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gxseries

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  1. Yes, I can edit the text, but I can't just edit the topic... >_< as in the title... I don't know if admins only can do that...
  2. Maybe I have not been toooooo clever, but I have problems trying to edit a typo in a topic that I have set. I know that you can edit the text, but I think I have troubles looking for the area to edit the topic. How can I edit the topic
  3. Geez... I wonder what it could be that is "shocking"...
  4. Er no, it's not necessary true. It depends on the gold alloy. If you have coins that's at least .900, dipping gold coins in acetone is pretty hard to tell. It isn't very true if you have a 14k gold coin, but that is still called "gold".
  5. Same here! Although I usually type the whole thing out...
  6. Just the beginning of this month, Russia has released 4 special commemorative coins about Tatarstan. Central Bank Russia homepage But Tatarstan is supposed to be an independent country! I know that Russia has commemorated precious metal coins before like this, Kremlin But isn't Russia overdoing it this time with 1kg silver and gold coin? Earlier on, I was talking about Russia releasing a 10 ruble bi-metal coin about Kaliningrad, what do you think is going on? Has the Russian mint ran out of ideas to mint coins? Or are there still some Soviet men working in the mint, and have no idea how the world has changed?
  7. You know, you have to know what you are going to clean. You might be able to get away with silver and gold with little cleaning, but obviously coin specialists can tell them right away, or rather some novices can tell that too. But if you happen to have any copper coins, never ever clean them, unless you have those "green" copper oxide. If you clean them, you are more likely to find pitholes which you may never thought of, but of course, there is a reason to it. When oxidiation happens, corrosion happens and it eats away part of the metal. And so, when you try to remove such the corrosion, you are removing part of the "dirt" that covered some of the pitholes that it caused... There is a reason why coin collectors rarely like coins being cleaned... because most of the time, they are quite evident and usually undesirable for too many reasons. Depending on the type of metal coins that you got there, if you have silver or copper, it is better if you get some kind of silica pack to remove any moisture unless your area happens to be dry, which is a good story. Moisture is just bad for the coins. And yea... I think everyone else filled in the other parts that I wanted to say.
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. My first guess was 8,765 (you can find it in the earlier post) Second guess: 18,765
  12. Seen it, a great site
  13. Welcome! We wouldn't bite but we may eat newbies ;P *just kidding* Don't worry, ask any questions and you are perfectly safe ^_^
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. (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...
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. Time for harder metals... like... steel, nickel, tungsten...
  20. I'm pretty sure gold would be the best option as it is a soft metal too... I guess it's too cost prohibitive.
  21. 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!!!*
  22. 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...
  23. 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.
  24. OH wow never knew!!! O_O You rule!!!
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