Jump to content
CoinPeople.com

grivna1726

Members
  • Posts

    2,233
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by grivna1726

  1. I guess I'm being a bit unfair in terming it "just a catalog". It does contain some short writeups, explains mints & mintmarks, Cyrillic dating & some others but nothing not already covered in more depth in Uzdenikov and other works. I see nothing on post-Soviet patterns, just the regular & commemorative NCLT issues up to 1993. The book was published in Moscow in 1994. Your pattern(?) is not listed. I don't know where you can get the book now. I got mine in Europe some years ago. It might show up on ebay, watch there. Here's what it looks like...
  2. and that would be consistent with being a pattern. Sorry, no. With the exception of Rylov/Sobolin (which is really just a catalog), all of my references deal with the Imperial issues. I am most familiar with the 18th century stuff and a bit less familiar with the 19th century. I know very little about the Soviet issues and even less about the post-Soviet stuff, so I can't be of much help. All I can say is that my gut feeling is that it is not a fantasy. I might easily be wrong, but my guess is that it's a real pattern.
  3. I don't know why it couldn't be a die trial for an unapproved pattern. If it's a fantasy issue, it is of unusually high quality and the apparent rarity of the "coins" argues against being a fantasy, in my opinion. I might be wrong, but my gut feeling is that these are probably real. If it's a fantasy issue created to make money, then why haven't other examples appeared?
  4. The alignment is a function of the die punch array used. Ghosted images of the punches are sometimes seen on the plates. I'm not sure what causes them, but think it might be the result of the array bouncing after striking. See http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3746/pg0262yy.jpg for a picture of the die punch array used to strike the grivny (courtesy of gx). The back is nothing exciting, just plain metal. The plates are really a uniface issue.
  5. You might be a relatively new collector of Russian coins, gx, but you learn quickly and whatever you might lack in experience, you more than make up in enthusiasm. Plus, you actually read books to learn about the coins, which is a surprisingly uncommon trait. It never ceases to amaze me how many collectors think that the only things they ever need to read are the latest published bid/ask prices and the assigned grade on a slab.
  6. I thought that you must be a long-time collector. I like the silver coins the best, but collect other metals as well. This thread is about my favorite coin in my collection (which is a copper coin): My Favorite Russian coin
  7. That's a choice coin with an excellent strike. Congratulations! How long have you been collecting Russian coins?
  8. I find this an appealing and impressive series of coins featuring some of the most significant events of the 20th century. The fact that they are real circulating coins adds to their appeal as historical items. Very nice!
×
×
  • Create New...