alexbq2

Just a side note, the coin sold at Wolmar went for something like $250.

Here's one from Wolmar:

Fritz Rudolf Kuenker GmbH # 161 2009

IMHO not an improvement over mine. Nor this one:

DMITRY MARKOV Coins & Medals # 21 2009

the coin, or the Empress?

Haven't met the Empress...

Here's that 1739 polupoltinnik. I am pleased with it. Not too hard on the eye in person.

Here is another low grade bargain (Anna, not Paul).... I put in for 50 bucks. went a bit over 100. not bad for a bargain type coin.

congrats to the winner!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...e=STRK:MEDWX:IT

Thank you! I don't think I could afford to touch a higher grade one, so I decided to grab the less appealing specimen. IMHO this coin is much scarcer than the 1798 10 kopeeks and does not quite have as much air shining through it.

A lot is being said these days about low grade coins and how the market is leaning away from them, and perhaps there’s some truth to that, but true or not some popular and difficult coins still do well in auctions in spite of their hideousness.

In the following auction, a holed 1798 10 kopeeks with very jagged multiple cuts into its edge was sold on ebay for over $100:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=200480153523

I just purchased 2

Looks great!

Not exactly a coin, but still Paul's, and silver, and I believe these were used as money.

This illustrates the point about popularity:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=270552061349

And lots of fakes too...

I'd suggest that you also show your coin's edge - and then ask some knowledgeable person to give his opinon...

I'm not an expert in this type, but it looks a bit suspicious to me... but maybe just well cleaned...

(All imho and sorry if it is a false alarm...)

I don't have it on hand, but the edge looks good and clean. But yes the coin has been cleaned, probably with some chemicals no traces of patina left. I've seen dealers in Germany do that to silver coins.

A popular issue, very competitive pricing these days!

Got this one not too long ago:

and some weirdos collect dead insects AND coins...

Nice bugs - Big!

so why NOVODELs has high prices ?

Because enough people are willing to pay the high prices.

majority collectors in russia DO NOT collect novodels

That does not explain the high prices that Novodels habitually command.

I think there is a basic misunderstanding here as to the meaning of "Novodel". gxseries and IgorS touch on it briefly but I think that someone, more qualified that I, should give a concise explanation of what is meant by Novodel.

I think too many people, as gxseries said, confuse them with fantasy pieces and counterfeits.

As I recall, Uzdenikov gave a brief definition of a Novodel as “An object struck at some date later than that indicated on the object, at the mint with original or newly cut dies, or outside of the mint but with original dies.”

The reason for the last part of the definition is due to the fact that some Gangut roubles were struck at GIM with original dies.

Sorry, not for sale.

I also have this one - 1810 2 kopeeks СПБ-ФГ:

Here's my 1810 ИМ over СПБ (МК) 2 kopeeks:

Is this by any chance the same coin?

A nice error coin... :-)

There's an error on it?

I can't quite see as the images are so small, but I thought this was that uber-rare old type/new type "mule" coin.

That makes 2 people so far.

As I understand, collecting Soviet Russian circulation coins has become quite popular these days. Now that hobby involves measuring microscopic deviations in minute details on otherwise identical coins. So distinguishing coins by stylistic changes in the design does not seem like a hassle in comparison (to me).

How many on this forum collect 1810 2 kopeks coins by crown size variety?

I try!

Well, we know that the type I showed is R1 (Bitkin). So if Steve could count up the number of that type of coins in his DB, we could compare it to the number of Kuna's coins and draw our conclusions based on that.

Turns out I didn't have as many as I thought I did - just 7!

You also have this one: