bekiz

Hi,

Time to reshuffle the collection a little.

Lots of modern silver coins, but there are also some XIX century medals like this one.

I am located in Japan so shipping will be done from the place.

Send your offers please

here is the link to gallery of pictures: https://postimg.org/gallery/1dy8xfi4g/

P.S. some of these coins are listed there too. (search for silvernumiz)

Hello bekiz,

 

Your schützenfest medal is from the Canton of Vaud, City of Lausanne and was awarded during the Cantonal Schützenfest of 1894.

 

The medal was minted in 4 variations of 44 mm diameters.

 

1. Gold, RRR (extremely rare), 68.9 grams with 6 examples

 

2. Silver, H or common with 1,000 minted

 

3. Gold plated bronze, RRR

 

4. Bronze, H, 880 examples.

 

Engraved by Charles Jean Richard and Louis Furet of Geneve and Charles Vuillermet of Lausanne

 

It is Richter number 1591b (R1591b) and Martin number 946 (M946)

 

 

I hope this additional information is helpful.

Your example looks quite nice, what grade did NGC give it?

Info is helpful, thank you. I have got the mintage info while browsing through the whole thread.

I am not into medals much but the details on the medal caught my attention. 100 years ago people made medals that look as a real piece of art. Medals people have here in the thread is something unbelievable.

The medal got MS65 from NGC. I bought it slabbed already as the second I saw it I have got a thought that I must have it.

Questions:

1. I have noticed that very few shooting medals graded ms65 or above (common is ms63). Does the grade matter when pricing the medals?

2. What is a surviving mintage of the medals? I read somewhere in the thread, that some medals were melted before. Is there any way to determine what is a population of these medals today?

I was looking at Swiss shooting talers for awhile now. Came across this medal.

The only info I get is what is written on slab - 1894 Swiss Shooting Fest, Lausanne.

Is it fake, restrike, or proof?

any other info?

The mintmaster's initials should look like this (for 1898 ... Cyrillic "AG" for Apollon Grasgov):

 

In 1904, you should see "AP" (Cyrillic "AR" for Alexander Redko).

yeah, I found them ... read some articles about Empire gold

Thank you!

Although sometimes you can spot a fake coin from pictures, there is no way to tell for sure if a coin is genuine just by looking at pictures.

 

I don't see anything suspicious about the pictures. Check the weight of the coins and the mintmaster initials on the edge. If these are correct, then they are probably genuine, although I am sure you could find better examples of these since these are two of the most common years.

bobh,

thanks for reply.

As of mintmaster on edge - i couldn't find it. Edge looks like this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/267/tor5rub.jpg/

As of weight - 4.29-4.31gr ... though my scales are not that good ... margin of error is pretty high

I wonder if they real according to pictures as I am newbie in that field.

The reality is, I have these coins myself but they aren't proof like or anything like that. It's the packaging that people are paying for. It's a bit of shame that I can't bid on yahoo japan otherwise there's too much bargains over there.

Yeah, bargains show up time to time, but I find soviet and imperial silver coins pretty much overpriced comparing it to ebay's.

That's absolutely nuts! I bought one a long time ago for about 7 pounds 6 years ago.

 

I suppose it's the casing that counts because I don't really think the coins are any special. I have to find it - hiding some where as usual.

Proof like Lenin was sold for $160, may be there were too few of this sets still alive? Or hiding somewhere and no one cares to sell them.

I got it in Japan, with shipping and etc for 1000 yen, equivalent of $12.

P.S. Overall I am surprised and the same time relieved - can sell some of these and add silver soviet and imperial coins for the proceeds

Have 1 set from 1970 1 rouble with Lenin. Tried to price it before listing on ebay.

Here what the winning bid for one alike was : http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item231c16d360&item=150795113312&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=hMOW41kw5%252FlpQ4Zb8KEQkqC%252FR7Y%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_3022wt_1023

If seller is new to ebay I doubt he will get a decent bids for the coins.

May be to offer the coins' set on different forums is an option, but again, from the user with low feedback or few messages I doubt there will be a glut of buyers.

One of the options is to ask someone with ebay account to do it for you, but you will have to pay some %, because the ebay account holder might pay the taxes.