gxseries Posted August 14, 2005 Report Share Posted August 14, 2005 One of my coins from my prized overstriked coin collection, this coin has to go because a) It is honestly a very nice piece, which I will detail it as following It will make a great coin for your collection even if you don't have an overstriked coin c) I got some unexpected bills to pay for d) I do happen to have a spare one (or I would be horribly upset parting with this coin) Ok, back to the coin, if you followed up my conversation on overstriked coins which I mentioned quite some time ago, the link is right down here: http://coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=354 The example shown there is not the coin that I have here for sale, but I could easily make the presentation if you would like so that you can show it to anyone else on the internet. Here are the pictures of the coin: Orientation of the 1793 5 kopeks design: Orientation of the underlaying 1796 10 kopeks design: In this image here: you most definately can see the 10 kopek word and also another underlying design of the previous 5 kopek coin!!! As in, this coin originally was a 5 kopek coin, which was then overstriked by a 1796 10 kopek coin and overstriked AGAIN by a 1793 5 kopek coin!!! Not easy to find, you can try your luck finding another one. On average, I see them around every half a year but they are usually very coarse, and not too finely graded. If you were to ask me about the grading, honestly this is quite a difficult one. I admit that there is a bit of green verdgies, which probably could be removed by acetone, but I will not as I have not experienced with it before. The overgrading at my best knowledge would be a F+ or a weak VF-, due to the overstriking features. The underlying 10 kopek design does appeal a bit, which I would grade it a suprising F-, as quite a fair bit of the underlying details do remain. As for the last underlying image, it is just as good as "worn" The technical details of this coin is as follows, Mass (grams): 48.2 Thickness (mm): 3.17-3.56 Diameter (mm): 44.52-45.13 (variance due to crude striking) As for the pricing, I am thinking of around 140USD (including all the lame registered shipping and paypal fees). I would be including the .swf file, technical details in both english and Russian (for any reasons there could be), and would be throwing any freebies that I have at the moment. Yes, you would wonder why such insane price but here is the rest of the story: Russian coins have been soaring insane high these recent years and I cannot just keep up with them due to their insane ridicious prices. Just three years ago, this is one of the catalogues that I had, but the prices are way more than what it is right now: According to the catalogue, the price of such overstriked Paul's recoining is around 80USD or so, but the 10 kopek coin is a shocking 1000USD+. (12 fold!) Why? It just happens to be that not too many of such coins were spared from the massive overstriking program. And currently such coins are almost impossible to get hold of, unless you want them in terms of overstrucked coins. Hope you enjoyed the story and thanks for taking your time to read. Please pm me if you are interested or if you want more infomation about this coin. Any reasonable offers are seriously taken into account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 And now it is reserved for me, isn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Yup. Unless you want to cancel it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brett Posted October 2, 2005 Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 In case he cancels, I want the next shot at it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted October 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 2, 2005 Silly me, I forgot the links to the flash video Clip 1: overstriked Coins infomation http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/6429/overstrikev28id.swf Clip 2: Specifications of this overstriked 5k/10k coin http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2618/10kopeckspecs2tr.swf >> Note: You can ZOOM IN, by right click, or you can try various other functions too. There is a reason why these clips are ridiciously big!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted October 3, 2005 Report Share Posted October 3, 2005 Woohoo! It is great! I won't cancel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexei Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 have the same but do have an IMPORTANT question- got my hands on Paul's re coining but what's bugging me is how 1796 10 kopeks turned out to be under 1793 5 kopeks shouldn't it to be other way around??? thank you in advance Alexei Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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