Thee_Immortal_One Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Question for RWJ. Stacks/Coin Galleries auctioned off a 1796 ducat in their November 6, 1996 Mail Bid Auction, Lot# 1963. Was this one of the 22 known specimens? TI on truncation Probably Obverse A and Reverse 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RW Julian Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Question for RWJ.Stacks/Coin Galleries auctioned off a 1796 ducat in their November 6, 1996 Mail Bid Auction, Lot# 1963. Was this one of the 22 known specimens? TI on truncation Probably Obverse A and Reverse 1 I am unable to find this specimen in my database and do not have this sale catalogue. If you are able to send me (edit.rns@comcast.net) a jpeg of the illustration I can check it against my photographs. RWJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thee_Immortal_One Posted December 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 I am unable to find this specimen in my database and do not have this sale catalogue. Ifyou are able to send me (edit.rns@comcast.net) a jpeg of the illustration I can check it against my photographs. RWJ Here is the coin scan from my 2008 posting to this forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RW Julian Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Here is the coin scan from my 2008 posting to this forum. Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I have this specimen in my database but I had earlier searched under Stack’s & Coin Galleries. It is, as you thought, the Obverse A / Reverse 1 combination. It is marked as being downloaded from this forum in April 2008. It is an historic and valuable coin, well worth owning. RWJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thee_Immortal_One Posted December 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Here is the coin scan from my 2008 posting to this forum. Thank You for the RNS article. For those wondering what it was like buying Russian Coins before the Price Arms Race, the catalog expected price was $800.00 to $1000.00 and it was just another entry with illustration, nothing special. I won the auction with a bid of $550.00, much to my surprise. And that is what it was like to collect Russian Coins, gold and otherwise, in the mid 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 For those wondering what it was like buying Russian Coins before the Price Arms Race, the catalog expected price was $800.00 to $1000.00 and it was just another entry with illustration, nothing special. I won the auction with a bid of $550.00, much to my surprise. And that is what it was like to collect Russian Coins, gold and otherwise, in the mid 1990s. Ah, the good old days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 In the mid 90's I was in high school and did not have $500 to my name I did get this in the early 90's for ??? don't remember, $20 or $30, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Ah, the good old days... Perhaps a little kitschy as far as the staging goes, but nevertheless very well sung: На здоровье! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Perhaps a little kitschy as far as the staging goes, but nevertheless very well sung: На здоровье! Thank you for the link, bobh. I remember the version by Mary Hopkin, and this one by Nani Bregvadze is a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Was this one of the 22 known specimens? was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altyn Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 The coin appears to have been bent in the past and then straightened back. Could that be some kind of a test, e.g. pure gold (soft) would bend relatively easily, while a gold plated fake coin wouldn't? I recall reading about something like this. Does this make sense? Especially because one needs teeth to do the alternative test and that might be a problem, especially in those days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Especially because one needs teeth to do the alternative test and that might be a problem, especially in those days... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 The coin appears to have been bent in the past and then straightened back. Could that be some kind of a test, e.g. pure gold (soft) would bend relatively easily, while a gold plated fake coin wouldn't? I recall reading about something like this. Does this make sense? Especially because one needs teeth to do the alternative test and that might be a problem, especially in those days... Many gold coins (especially high fineness gold coins such as a ducat) of this era are found bent and straightened (most likely, just as you thought, as a test for gold's softness). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 since these coins are russian and they were being circulating/donating in russia, a dentistry over there was not and never been about even close to the US high level, and technology and dentistry are always behind of US, so poor russians had no choice but test it using by teeth in/on any occasions (including myself); regards to famous collections there were no such coins as trouble one in this post, no "many"; i just looked at famous Leonid Soderman collection - all coins of that period are nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.