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Steve! Glad to see you're still here! Many Thanks for the token!!!

No, I'm not aware of any rare varieties for the 1823 rouble. Please state a reference number to a recognized catalog with the author's Rarity estimate.

Why is 1823 rare?

That is amazing!

There is an overall cap on uploads. I think it's 10 MB, so if all of your uploaded files add up to 10 MB you are not allowed to upload anything new.

That's a rare find! Good catch!

Have they posted the realized prices yet?

Wasn't me...

Nice coins! Congrats!!! Good luck with Alex 3, you'll need it!

I can tell that somebody from this forum sold this coin.

There is an interesting article in the May edition of the Antikvariat magazine. Evdokimov (a.k.a GSE) wrote of the Paul's overstrikes. Haven't seen it, would love to read it. Has anyone got a subscription?

One of these was sold by MiM (auction 67, lot 285), it went for 5000 roubles, but the condition was pretty poor. It was described as "Fairly Rare".

I think Sigi is spot on. Just curious, where did you get them?

I think not, I believe they were struck at KM or AM, and those mints did not participate in the overstriking at that time.

Eugene, you are welcome to "beat" them, just not physically.

Thanks! The general guidelines are - Like + Afford. Based on those principles I just added a German coin, even though I don't collect them:

If anyone is interested I can offer NGC slabbed Ms-62 BN 1/4 kopeck 1885 and AU-50 20 kopecks 1859

A very CM looking coin.

St. Petersburg's Russian Numismatic Society produced a series of medals and medallions to raise funds for the Red Cross. I believe there were 6 types: Russian Soldier, Nurse, Support for Poland, for Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro, Armenia. Medals were in silver and bronze, and came in 2 or 3 sizes. I've managed to get 4 types so far, see below. Does anyone have any of these?

Got a new coin 1790 2 kopecks AM. How does it look?

Sigi look at the pictures of EM coins that GSE shared (and Eugene and I both copied), all the EM 5s are slanted, almost like cursive. I think that is a good tell for the EM vs CM. Your coins have more upright 5s, and being in a very good shape they seem to lack the ruffled feathers of the EM eagles.

Don't know about the 19th century, but in the 18th century they were trying to remove the wire kopecks from circulation, and it wasn't that easy. There were numerous examples of the government trying to get rid of problematic coins, all were expensive cumbersome and not that successful. Lets just say we still have access to plenty of silver wires and light weight 5 kopecks (1723 type).

I do not know the answer to your question, but having read some notes by Petrov, introductions to old catalogs, and Kuprin's memoirs, I am left with an impression that older coins were often found in change all the way up to 1917. Old coins were also very often donated at the church. Petrov, as I recall, had developed an interest in numismatics after he had found a bucket of old coins at the church that he was restoring. Kuprin in his childhood sold his collection of old coins to a priest's apprentice (diachok) to buy his mother a present. I get the impression that the source of his collection was loose change.

The first one looks like it has cool re-engraved mint master initials MF/FG

Splurged on another Poltina: