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Congratulations, белка! Are all of these coins on OmniCoin now?

I really wanted to ... but I was in Texas from the last week of Sept. until today (my Mom had her 90th birthday party!)

Sold for 3,250.00 CHF Thanks ... that must be the most attractive beard token (original, not novodel) that I have ever seen! I suspected it would go for a high price like this.

What price did the beard token bring (lot 137)? I didn't bid on anything in this auction -- wouldn't have had a chance on the nicer things, anyway.

Probably of Chinese origin: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261106041345 (just noticed that seller thinks it is a copy, too ... )

Thanks ... who supplies material such as this? Photo supply stores, specialty optical supplies, or ordinary hardware stores?

Agreed on VF, but I don't know about the possible cleaning. The photos were probably taken with a flash which would account for the "shinyness". As to price, you could look here for recent auction results: http://www.m-dv.ru/catalog/id,347/prohod.html

What kind or quality of glass pane do you use for this? I am getting frustrated because of focussing issues which I THINK are due mostly to aberrations in the reflective glass I am using. It's just an A4 (approx. US-Letter) size glass pane from a very cheap picture frame... I am sure there are better (more expensive) alternatives, but since I don't know much about optics I wouldn't know what to buy.

Thanks!

I wonder how much variation there is in the weight of a slab -- from the same company, of course? One could calculate it by taking coins of different types, but known weights, in similar slabs and doing some basic arithmetics. Of course, the diameter of the coins should be the same, otherwise it wouldn't work out correctly.

The subject line says it all, or mostly! I like real books better, but online links are also welcome.

Since neither Brekke nor Bitkin show any different dies for the novodels, I would assume they were struck from original dies and therefore should weigh about the same as the originals. But I really don't know anything about this series at all.

Here are two gold coins and a couple of silver minors I won from the most recent Hess-Divo sale (Nicholas II, 7.5 roubles and 5 roubles 1910) and two modern silver commemoratives (1991, Arc of Triumph and 1991, Manned Space Flight) which I found at a local dealer's shop: http://www.coinpeopl...post__p__572529

Although most of the coins I collect just cannot be found in circulation anymore, I do get a thrill when I see something unusual in my pocket change. There was one convenience store located in the underground shopping passage of the railway station here where I work (Switzerland), and I once received a 20 cent piece dated 1908 and a 10 cent piece dated 1912 in my change money -- at different times, but both from the same store! Someone must have been spending a collection little by little. The most recent find -- cannot recall if it was from that same store or not -- was a 1967 silver 5 Franc piece ... Switzerland called in all silver coinage back then, later striking everything only in copper-nickel (for everything but 5 cents) or copper-zinc (? for 5 Rappen?). It has become quite rare to find any silver coins in circulation these days, although finding some older 10 and 20 cent minors as I did is not quite as rare. I was also thrilled to find a nice BU silver 50 cent coin from 1967 once in my change. For other things, I used to shop quite a lot on eBay back in the days when there was still good material to be had there. Today, I rarely buy anything there unless it is from one of a few respectable dealers with whom I have done business in the past. I frequent some local coin shows and dealers, but I have been gravitating more and more to the more established international auctions. There just isn't any other way to acquire nice material these days, although the dealers I mentioned will have a nice Morgan dollar or Indian cent on occasion. Imperial Russian material has just about dried up except for the auctions, and even then it just isn't nearly what it used to be.

Really? I was under the impression that if you can see an image in your browser, then there is at least a temporary picture file already in the cache somewhere on your computer. Generating a watermark on every image from the server seems like the best option to me (very easy to implement using the GD library). I think ebay used to do this, anyway; don't know why they reverted to showing plain images.

Not in great shape, but a rare type. I already posted pictures from the auction right after I won it; now, several months later, I finally had time to take my own photos of it. USA 2 Cents, 1864-SM (small motto): Here's a nice Barber dime I recently acquired: USA Barber dime, 1899:

The next two were won in different Heritage auctions: USA Buffalo Nickel, 1928-D (NGC MS-64): USA Buffalo Nickel, 1936-S (PCGS MS-64):

Picked these up last week at another (different) dealer: USA Indian Cent, 1893: USA Indian Cent, 1901: USA Buffalo Nickel, 1920:

The next two are chance finds at a local dealer here in Zurich: 3 roubles, 1991: 500 Years of Russian Unity - Arc of Triumph: 3 roubles, 1991: 30 Years of Manned Space Flight:

Here are some recent Russian acquisitions of mine. These first four are from the most recent Hess-Divo auction back in May this year; the two modern commemorative coins were a chance find at a local dealer here in Zurich. 7-1/2 roubles, 1897 - wide rim variety: 5 roubles, 1910-ЭБ: 25 kopecks, 1859 (variety St. George with cape): 20 kopecks, 1889:

What are these copyright issues exactly? This is what is stated in the original Severin silver coins reference:

The link to download "lit.zip" is broken. However, if you copy & paste the link to "lit.accdr" into your browser's address line and replace the extension ".accdr" with ".zip", you can still download it.

Those were the days ... I started with Access 2.0 back in 1993 or 1994; Gateway (don't exist anymore, I think) had a special offer for a PC with Windows 3.1 and MS-Office 4.3 pre-installed. Before that, I had a used IBM-XT with a Hercules graphics card and memory expansion board which could run CP/M programs like WordStar and a flat-file database called "File Express". The PC cost me about $1,000 -- 2nd hand! It is gathering dust in a closet somewhere. Apparently people collect them! Well, I think even for a quick mock-up, it is not much fun once you start getting corrupted databases. But this is seriously OT by now, so I'll be quiet. As to Severin numbers, are you referring to Bob Julian's reference table? He maps Severin to his own numbers, I think. Don't have the book in front of me right now. But Severin was published a long time ago, certainly more than 50 years ago by now.

Sorry ... "DDL" = data definition language, part of the standard SQL language for databases.