Renewal

As far as the prices go,

back in 2006: http://www.cngcoins....px?CoinID=77416

And one recent auction: http://www.coinarchi...2cdc53889f0d96a

Thanks,

and yep, have not seen an awful lot of these around, but I'm not into type business anyway. I tend to take each piece individually, because it's character is more important than the coin itself.

This one I bought because it looks rather nice and because the eagle's right wing resembles something like a badly patched blanket. Had a similar coin long time ago, but that one was so corroded that I could not tell.

Hi, been lurking around here for a while, and since these forums have a dedicated corner for Russian coins, I thought this is something that might fit in here.

This particular coin looks like another one from a recut die, possibly from the transitional type? Looks kind of messed up, and I constantly get a feeling that the cross on top of the orb is going somewhere.