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Just curious: here we are in March, 2015, seven months after IMIS made his prediction. Have many of the Sincona 19 lots appeared for sale at discounted prices?

To that fact, I just noticed something on M-DV. In October of 2012 (1st sale of the Sincona collection?) this coin went for $535.

It looks like this coin was resold just a month later in (Nonmember 18th 2012, Imperial Auction House Auction 23 Lot 210), only this time it was graded as Proof not just UNC, and was sold for $946

Hi Alex and Eugene, thank you for showing the Siberian 1767 ten kopeks. Nice ones. The 1767 lettered edge is lacking with me, too. By the way, according to my statistics , of the three 1767 types - lettered edge, edge 1 (/////////////) and edge 6 (\\\\\\\\\\\\\\) - the rarest one is edge 6,

Sigi

 

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Interesting info. Can't say i pay much attention to the inclination of the rope edge. My new coin has 1, I will check the old one (odds are it is also 1).

Yes, a denomination error set from this period would be interesting, if not unique. I suspect I'll be able to

find a nice 2 kopek of this type of error eventually. I was offered one recently, but it was ugly and I was suspicious

that it was false. I also have a polushka of this period about 60% off center, but not double struck.

Here is one more recent buy, same period but different type, however it hasn't arrived yet.

Cheers,

-mike

You have a good taste sir!

Just thought I'd share a couple of coins I won in the January Goldberg sale.

Very impressive mint errors!

Hard coin! I only have an ugly 1766.

I'll chime in. Here are a few acquisitions from the last months.

Not a terrible 5 kopecks from 1916:

Improved the Siberian 10 kopeck 1767 KM kopecks. The new one is on top. Still looking for the 1767 no MM.

BTW, does anyone want the old one.

I also picked up these 2 late Nicholas 1st coins:

Great coins!

I'm not sure the same idea of Novodels can always be applied to medals. There are medals that were struck significantly after the original with new dies. These can be clearly considered Novodels. Like this one, from the 1892 restrike of the Northern war series:

Or this copy of the silver award medal struck for collectors:

However, regular table medals were always restruck with original dies by the mint at a later date, either for a significant related occasion (e.g. an anniversary of the event), or based on the private request from collectors. So unlike a coin that is clearly dated, and meant to have been struck on that date, medals were not. As such I would refrain from drawing the same distinction between the original and a Novodel as I would with coins.

One of the collectors from Czech Republic showed me this medal. Can anyone look this tin medal up in the Diakov medal catalog Part 2 and tell me more about it? Does he list them in tin? Any other info would be appreciated also... Thank you!

 

1770 tin medal.jpg

Don't have the book, but most medals were minted in White Metal, Bronze and Silver. Diakov number should be 150.1.

Look at the beginning of the book, this should be all explained. Number 6 is the type of edge, there is a list. Circle vs. rhombus is circulation coin vs. Novodel restrike.

It is only in Russian. But it is tables/lists of coins. I'm not sure what you are looking for, but for general collecting, if you already own Bitkin you probably do not need this one.

I think you are looking for this:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251891741673

Hello Fred,

You can probably find an electronic version online, or a reprint on eBay.

Respectfully,

Alex

That's very interesting. Did Brekke explain why he changed his mind? And did he fly in from Mexico just for this coin?

 

Sigi, where are you? We are waiting for your much anticipated story please, please, please! I am checking the forum daily for a new topic "1726 kopek" from you... Can we have it?

Soyez patient!

 

Me?!

I said I could be wrong. I just thought you posted something on their behalf at some point.

I don't care personally, but from what I see it is (to some degree) a result of a somewhat annoying and unprofessional nature of their promotion...

I may be wrong, but I believe that Candidate, who just posted above, is associated with Sincona.

Whoever that Sincona rep in charge of dealing with Russian forums might be, I quite enjoyed this level of engagement with the collectors, and I hope that other auctions would provide this much online access to their upcoming auctions in the future. I know that there are at least 2 MiM experts who curate almost daily on Russian coin forums. They are knowledgeable and experienced people, and I often read their posts, but I do wish that on occasion they would show more restraint in their forum posts. (And I believe that Basilio/Kapustin has become much more measured and less vitriolic in the last few years). I would applaud MiM if they shared their upcoming auction's coin pics on forums, like Sincona does, as well as posted articles about more interesting coins from their auctions.

More details please!

I am very puzzled by all the friction around the Sincona sales. I can understand that certain auction house might resent the attention that these are drawing, but odds are at some point in future, they will be reselling some of these coins. Sounds like a Win-Win for all.

I think Sincona Collection is the perfect name for the Russian coins Sincona is selling for the past 3 years and will be selling again this coming fall. The reason is simple - they belong to Sincona, thus the name.

Was just reading this ugly business between Basok and Arefieff on CM. Arefieff indicates that Soderman sold his silver along with gold in the 60's. Is that the case? I recall Gold/Platinum auction attributed to Sodermann, don't recall silver. Is that why the Sincona collection is anonymous?

It was something like this:

 

 

Now it looks like this:

 

 

It looks like a multiple overstrike (it was through a few overstrikes / re-coinings)...

 

Great coin, I doubt I've ever seen this much undercoin before. Verdi-Care again?

Congratulations! Looks like you are getting into medals more and more or am I wrong? Seems OmniCoin has limitation on the images size? Too small.

I agree, I should do like Sigi, and create my own inventory site. I do like medals/exonumia, but my appetites are still omnivorous and opportunistic.

How much, and what's the NGC verdict?

I wonder who got this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/381198208323

Seems like BS - 1 bidder, private listing, sold at initial price.