alexbq2

Thanks! Didn't know he was a KGB spy!!!

Just got an email distribution from Sincona, was hoping to see more coins, and perhaps find out who this collection belonged to. IMHO it was Brezhnev!

The document has a foreword from Baron Eduard Alexandrowitsch von Falz-Fein. It is not clear how he is associated with Sincona or this collection, is it his?

Congratulations with an interesting find, and good luck in the future!

BTW, it would be interesting to see the flip side of these coins.

The coin on the top right is from Brandenburg, so is bottom middle, both read Georg Wilhelm.

The coins with a happy fellow with a big nose (top/bottom left and top middle), are from Sigismund III of Poland.

The last coin I would guess is one of the Ferdinands of the Holy Roman Empire.

Look through this list, you might find some info:

http://www.omnicoin.com/country/Poland?page=1&sort=year

IMHO these are Polish.

It's true that you can resell this coin for a significant profit, and it would make sense to bid higher if that's the goal. But if you're buying it for yourself then all the usual budgetary restraints make it difficult to go higher.

Hope is what keeps us going!

But seriously, that auction was exciting! It looked very promising until about 5 minutes before the end, and even in the last minute there was a glimmer of hope... until all the snipes came through.

I'm keeping my money as well, against my wishes though

Sigi did you see this one?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251059537611

Don't know anything about these. Very impressed with prices realized. It really looks to me that collectors were scared by the conditions of the Imperial coinage market, and ran away to modern Russia, and probably now, as a result, the prices are exploding on that front.

alex right from that point, however, you may not reach your desirable price because most buyers want to buy it cheaper than it is, these just a little tips to you, also some do not like to buy from seller with zero or low feedback

Very True!

The Reserve Price gives you a choice not to perform the transaction if the winning bid is lower than the reserve price. Bidders know that there is a reserve price but do not know what it is. This can actually somewhat reduce interest in your item, as people might assume that the reserve is quite high and there is no point in trying to win.

Take very good pictures of the set and of each coin (perhaps using a scanner would be easier). Cut the pictures of coins out, so there is no huge empty spaces around them.

List on eBay under both Coins & Paper Money > Coins: World > Europe > Russia > Federation (1992-Now) and Coins & Paper Money > Coins: World > Gold

You can probably start the auction at $100 and see where it takes you.

If you don't have a PayPal account, it's a good idea to start one now.

Yes, but it's free shipping

Sold!!!

I think the question here is why sell something like that on eBay? Why not go through a respectable auction house?

And seller's caveat does not sound very promising: "* No returns accepted. All payments are final. Please contact for any questions."

Here's a fake: http://molotok.ru/3-kopejki-1917-goda-i2325089362.html

Makes the one on eBay look good

Alex,

Look at this one....

http://www.ebay.com/...=item3a7421c9c3

Honestly I've never seen one of these. I do know that the whole 1917 series has been faked, I'm not sure if this is one of those fakes though.

Looks like 1810 has become popular enough to have people recut 1811(?) 2 kopeeks into 1810: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261014504369

A very cool coin sold on eBay today. I did not win But congrats to whoever did!

Check it out, and note that the M on the obverse and the P on the reverse are both upside-down!!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/380434454472

There is a Link button on the tool bar right below font Size.

I don't like your coin. Reminds me of a bunch of Polushkas recently sold by Numismatic Lanz on eBay. I don't know their provenance, but they don't look right and I don't think they could even be Novodels.

mint masters and their team could have been changed ?

Maybe, but looks like Kolyvan Mint was in synch with Ekaterinburg. Ekaterinburg introduced the above style somewhere in 1778-1779, and then replaced it in 1788. Kolyvan used it from 1781 to again 1788. Which I think suggests some more global or "prescribed from above" reason for the change.

Here's another example: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261013533384

Fake 5 kop 1851 BM, seller slade001 coin has been banged up to look circulated.

I don't know, but I doubt that there would be a 4th matching pair.

Does anyone know why it was necessary to update the eagle design at Ekaterinburg mint every 10 years?