squirrel

wonderful topic! very educational. Research is impressive!

 

That's OK. Coin collectors tend to live longer than noncollectors. Medical fact

Good God, I sure hope so!

Very unique!

I agree with GxSeries. Old cleaning and age or artificial re toning can give that appearance. Otherwise seems genuine from your photos.

Great presentation !

Wonderful, and Congratulations, Eugene. If the English version becomes available, I will certainly add it to my little library. The photography looks to be very well done.

If his hand holds the orb, where is her hand going? Is that the question?

He is smiling, after all.

Alexi. The decoration on his sleeve matches his robe. Optical illusion!

edit: maybe.. . now i am confused. Perhaps this is copied from a painting. Find the painting! It will have colors!

I havent gone in a few years, but have had good luck in the past, as a humble collector. I am not a dealer.

Markov was a regular. He always had a good stock.

Basok, many many years ago. Not sure if he still comes to Boston.

Other dealers are hit and miss with Russian material, like the typical show.

Beautiful!

Ugly coins need love too...

I have always felt that way in hunting for the harder to find examples. Especially overstruck.

 

Well someone from this forum did outbid me about 7 years ago.

I pretty much stopped recreational spending on coins around the time my son was born.

He will be 7 years old next month!

Apparently, I now collect Transformers and Lego.

Nope. Checked. Wasn't me. Closest I have is a 1798/7 am polushka.

I do?

guess I can blow the dust off my coin boxes and check. My memory is shot.

Oh boy.

Seller knew of the damage and did not disclose, counting on the buyer to not ever open! Contact seller and see what the reaction is. Let them know they did not get away with it, even if a dispute does not find in your favor.

It is still a nice coin, however.

Very nice!

 

I really like how some of the large coins appear very distinctive from a distance. In particular the copper plate, Sestroretsk ruble as well as the Japanese oban.

 

Think there's the silver hryvnia as well?

The presentation gives great context, comparing and contrasting small coins with large coins, round coins, square coins gold, silver, copper, etc I think it adds quite a bit of interest.

This is why i enjoy your presentations, such as the Paul type set you just created, Gx!

pics from the Grand Dukes Collection at the Smithsonian, I took on a visit in 2003, are in this old thread...

http://www.coinpeople.com/index.php/topic/22308-1811-2k-overstruck-mintmark/?p=439391

nice work, gx!

Thanks, Sigi. perhaps some element of the overstruck coin there, but no overdate.

Great coin Igor, as are the rest of your "keepers"!

Thanks Sigi and Igor.

Yes, with the new cipher, an overdate would not be logical. 3 looked a bit unusual. I know elements were mixed and matched, so as you point out, Sigi, with Russian coins you never know.

still wondering why this no mm type is so seldom seen.

Moscow mint eagles had this form in Elizabeth times too, didn't they? Could be a use of old dies from her coins... I see it as possible...

This is my point. Old Elizabeth dies, no mm, 1762/3 date, struck on 1762 10K of Peter III.

Sigi, can you provide an enlarged date as well, from your image?

edit: Bitkin catalogs 1763 no mintmark (R3) under Ekaterinaberg Mint

 

It is an overstrike, very powerful, merely visible. Note the 1762 star in the scroll.

Sigi

So, this was overstruck with Dies from Elizabeth, and the 3 is an overdate?

Wonderful copper! Thank you for sharing these rare beauties!

Congatulations, Marv. Well done.