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extant4cell

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  1. Thank you! Glad to hear that you are still alive and kicking!
  2. Let it be the first post of 2024 here. Just would like to say hi to everyone! How are you holding up? Any news with you, anything interesting added to your collection? My latest addition to the collection is this wonderful SM 5 kopecks 1758. Much better looking in hand and I cleaned it up nicely too... Hope everyone is doing well!
  3. Yes, I see now that FB is not letting the images to be accessed from other sites easily. Let's try this one from SM forum.
  4. That's OK, always happy to see you here! I am staying loyal to this forum even if it is not very active at the moment.
  5. Not 100% sure. I made group public, so I assume anyone should be able to see it on FB even without joining, just won't be able to place replies. Can you test this out and tell me please?
  6. Happy to hear you got another nice coin safely from Katz!
  7. Sigi, we love you and your collection. Good luck with anything else you are doing with your life currently. Enjoy it! I am sure we all will always be happy to hear from you here if you choose to ever drop back.

    If anyone is trying to find Sigi's old collection, it switched the ownership and moved over here:
    https://oldrussiancoins.com/

  8. You are invited to visit Elizabeth Copper Coins FB page I created, as an alternative mode for staying in touch. It doesn't replace this forum, and isn't limited just to Elizabeth coins, rather focuses on them.

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/727063118386348

  9. Looks like we are heading towards the time when we might be able to upgrade our collections a bit cheaper than in the past. As long as we survive the upcoming turmoil.

  10. Hi guys, I love this forum and will always keep my membership here and check it out from time to time. However, our communication here has dropped to its utmost minimum in the last few years. I just wonder, where else (apart from one on one, like in emails) we communicate with each other (in English). May be there are other forums or groups you are members of where we can find you. Can you please share your open to public numismatic communication sources? I just created a new group on FB (adding a link to this forum on it). You are welcome to join for an alternative way to communicate: https://www.facebook.com/groups/727063118386348 Thank you, Eugene
  11. Looks like overstriking into 2 kopecks at SPM continued even into 1760. Just over a couple of years ago I reported finding a trustworthy image of such a coin.
  12. The rarest copper 5 kopecks of them all - 1758 5 kopecks SPM (originally published here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/727063118386348 ) Here is the coin that was sold in 1932 - the ideal 5 kopecks - an impossible to get gem for any Russian copper coins collection of 18th century. It was sold again for a laughable price of $500 by Dmitry Markov "Coins & Medals" in 2016. This coin has simply gone under the radar as not so many collectors yet understood its significance. The only 5 kopecks that we can confirm as minted by St Petersburg mint in a very small model coins production for other mints as an example of what to produce. Just look at that eagle, it was made using the same instruments that were used to make the eagles on 1758 Rubles - a classical eagle made by a well known medalist J. Dasier. Just a fabulous coin. In 1757 St. Petersburg mint (SPM) started minting 2 kopecks coins, making tools for its own old type overstrike production, and for their subsidiary Sestororetsk mint (SM). SPM has also made model coins and tools for Ekaterinburg (Yekaterinburg) mint (EM) and Moscow mint (MM). EM and MM used them as model examples and as time passed they modified their own dies that reflected their own styles of artistic engraving, though, truth to be told, the original design of SPM remained the best artistic example. To produce the small quantity of model coins for MM and EM the St. Petersburg mint has made model dies and used them at SPM before sending coins and the tools used for the die production to MM and EM. Over the years I managed to find three or four coins that have all the attributes of SPM mint apart from the shape of the scroll that states "two kopecks". These are some of the rarest 2 kopeck coins of Elisabeth reign, though there is at least one other type of EM 2 kopecks that beats it in rarity at the end of their production. Things were no different for the 5 kopecks in 1758 (the year when official production of these coins started). Just like with 2 kopecks, St. Petersburg mint has produced model dies and a small number of model coins for MM and EM to use as model examples. These model coins are in fact the rarest of all copper 5 kopeck coins from Elisaveta (Elizabeth) and Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great) array of 5 kopecks. All their attributes are exactly the same as on the coins made by SM mint, that SPM was making dies for. The only difference, again, is the scroll with "five kopecks" on it. It has the shape that was not used at SM but only at EM (MM coins also have a similar shape). So, it can be assumed away that tools produced for these coins ended up in EM to make more tools for coin production at EM, but the actual dies have never again been used to mint coins, only forms for the new dies. The rarity of this 5 kopecks coin is absolute! Only two such coins are known. One was sold by Adolph Hess in 1932 as part of "Dubletten russischer Museen" (Russian Museum Doubles sale) and in later years by Markov, while the other one was in the Count Tolsoy collection. It was featured in the famous prince Georgy Mikhailovich catalogues of Russian Imperial Coins and presently is kept in Hermitage Museum in Russia. In prince Georgy Mikhailovich's collection this coin was missing (site Numistika features these catalogue with ability to download them for free). These are the rarest and thus the most valuable 5 kopecks coins made between 1758 and 1796. The real value of this coin cannot be underestimated any longer, as none of the Russian copper coin collections of 18th century is complete without one of them - the headmaster of the 5 kopecks collection. What do you think the real price of such a magnificent and important coin should be if it ever hits the auctions again? Naturally this coin is featured in the catalogue of Russian coins with explanations of its rarity: Catalog of 2 & 5 kopecks of Elizabeth 1757-1762 | 4 & 10 kopecks of Peter III 1762 with Album (Atlas) of over 100 Images and 27 types sorted according to the mints that produced them (in Russian) References: 1) Adolph Hess in 1932 as part of "Dubletten russischer Museen" Russian Museum Doubles sale 2) Prince Georgy Mikhailovich catalogues of Russian Imperial Coins 3) Catalog of 2 & 5 kopecks of Elizabeth 1757-1762 4 & 10 kopecks of Peter III 1762 with Album of over 100 Images and 27 types (in Russian)
  13. Actually, solved this already. Himyarite Kingdom (not a coin, but some sort of token) Front: Asad al Kamil al Himyari Back: Saba / Dhofar / Himyar - three towns of the kingdom. more details, including the ancient alphabet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himyarite_Kingdom
  14. Looks like some kind of token from 1947 (according to Arabic tower clock,)
  15. sounds like a pocket change of someone who traveled to the late USSR in 1991. ))) most probably worth very little. I'd suggest to try and sell on eBay in groups or as one large lot.
  16. Which makes Sigi's coin as authentic as it can get.
  17. Yep, this one. Didn't realize that image did not show up. Fixed it now. Can you show yours? I have the feeling there should be at least a dozen of them around.
  18. Looks like a novodel to me. Nice find!
  19. Very nice one! Early KM and early TM coins have similar problems...
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