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  1. This is a great topic! My first overstruck coin was 1763 EM 5K. bought maybe 20 yrs ago... It was in with a mail order lot of coins, bought sight unseen for very little, and badly corroded. I had great fun removing the verdigris, only to discover all those strange extra elements that just didnt belong on this big russian coin! Thus i discovered the fun of overstruck variety.
  2. Thanks Sigi! After all, this is coin PEOPLE here! I try to use some type of system for keeping all the varieties of eagles clear in my mind, and if the later type KM pyatak eagle is the most beautiful (in my mind), then the 2nd type EM eagle is the ugly duckling. Dont even ask me how i keep the varieties of Anna Rouble portraits differentiated in my nutty brain, but you will never see "Jabba the Hut" listed in any scholarly reference.
  3. IMHO, Sigi, you have the older, plump, eagle. Not the scrawny, underfed bird of the later vintage. Congratulations!
  4. You might find better luck with two 5 ruble coins. Much more commonly found, i believe. and that way you could display one heads and one tails, for your exhibit. just a thought.
  5. Well, this one MIGHT be the real deal. It doesnt scream FAKE, and the photos seem ok at first look. My 7th grade French (which was horrible 30 years ago)seems to indicate the coin was mounted, and two French guys verified the authenticity. It would seem the usual "I promise the coin is ,genuine, so you cant return it" translates quite clearly. Not a reassuring way to buy a rare coin, to be sure.
  6. Parody! Thats great. What a good description. It makes "Fake" sound like a compliment!
  7. Here is another low grade bargain (Anna, not Paul).... I put in for 50 bucks. went a bit over 100. not bad for a bargain type coin. congrats to the winner! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEDWX:IT
  8. That wont be easy either! They are a good number of hard to find rarities in the copper set!!
  9. That huge bug better be R3 or R4 !!! because i dont ever want to come across one, unless it has a nail thru it! I have a few fossil trilobite bugs. (dont collect, just have lots of wierd stuff) I suppose those are the "novodels" of the insect world?
  10. Exactly to the point! Why do any of us collect these little pieces of round (not always) metal with pictures and words.... they can not keep the rain off of our heads or put food on the table (unless we choose to part with them)..... some folks collect beer cans, dead insects, etc. My dear mother collects the tiny green mossy plants that grow on tree bark, and talks endlessly about it! So I guess its whatever keeps you from being bored!
  11. i dont understand. is this not a newly purchased coin? how much and when was it purchased, and by who?
  12. Perhaps the Empress did not feel that the Imperial Cleavage was adequately represented
  13. Congratulations, Vladimir Best wishes for much success on your new book!
  14. The Dogs on either side of the coat of arms remind me of the Sables on (much later, 1764-81) Siberian copper.
  15. Well, ive now thoroughly researched the matter in a most academic manner, and can conclude that indeed, coins were minted during the year 1695! A search of fleabay reveals no less than 24 be-wigged, overfed, and inbread monarchs whos likeness was engraved in 1695, upon a disk of shiny silver!! All available to the highest bidder!!! I shall therefore have patience, but i thinks its going to be a long century........
  16. The great coin famine of 1695! and so ends the line? It cant be!
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