russia_coins Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Hello everyone ! I'm looking right now at Bitkin catalog of 2003, Volume II. I'm very surprised to see copper coins from 1895 & 1902-1914 (First type), 1899-1901 (Second type) and 1896-1898 (third type) in three distinctive categories. Does anyone knows what's the difference between each other ? All three types have same weight, diameter et edge type. Also, I'm surprised to see 1902 kopek as R (rare) while its mintage estimated at 20,000,000 and 1902 20 kopeks also as R. Do you think is it really rare ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 This is interesting - searched my collection and couldn't find 1902 kopek or 20 kopek coin. Saw just one of 1 kopek coin on ebay and one 20k on Basok's site. Must be tougher than I thought initally! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterShell Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Yes. It is rather hard to find 1902 coins. I've heard that there is some kind of mistake in those figures. For sure lot of people are seeking for 1902 coppers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RW Julian Posted November 24, 2010 Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 Hello everyone ! I'm looking right now at Bitkin catalog of 2003, Volume II. I'm very surprised to see copper coins from 1895 & 1902-1914 (First type), 1899-1901 (Second type) and 1896-1898 (third type) in three distinctive categories. Does anyone knows what's the difference between each other ? All three types have same weight, diameter et edge type. Also, I'm surprised to see 1902 kopek as R (rare) while its mintage estimated at 20,000,000 and 1902 20 kopeks also as R. Do you think is it really rare ? It took me several years to find the 1902 one kopeck. The 20 million mintage figure is misleading as this is a fiscal-year number, not calendar year. The 1902 20 kopecks is not, to my knowledge, a rare coin. There were no coins of this denomination struck during the fiscal-year 1902, leading to a mistaken belief of rarity. There were 10 million pieces coined in the fiscal-year 1903, however, which would have included the 1902 coinage in the last months of 1902. RWJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russia_coins Posted November 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 24, 2010 But what about 3 types of Nicholas II coppers ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Hello everyone ! I'm looking right now at Bitkin catalog of 2003, Volume II. I'm very surprised to see copper coins from 1895 & 1902-1914 (First type), 1899-1901 (Second type) and 1896-1898 (third type) in three distinctive categories. Does anyone knows what's the difference between each other ? All three types have same weight, diameter et edge type. If you look at the top of each page in Bitkin, you will see where the coins were minted. The different 'types' you list correspond to the different places they were produced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted November 25, 2010 Report Share Posted November 25, 2010 Also, I'm surprised to see 1902 kopek as R (rare) while its mintage estimated at 20,000,000...Do you think is it really rare ? The 1902 1K is the most difficult to find of the Nicholas II 1K...I've seen 29. The 1907 is the second-most scarce with 42 seen. The most common are the 1915 1K (328) and 1914 (316). If anyone is interest in my full table for this series Year | Number Seen send me a PM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russia_coins Posted December 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2010 There's a lot of 1, 2, 3 and 20 kopeks of 1902 on molotok.ru ! 1 kopek - 11 2 kopek - 9 3 kopek - 5 20 kopeks - 10 PS: 1 kopek 1907 - 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rupla Posted April 23, 2011 Report Share Posted April 23, 2011 I searched for a long time 1 kopek 1902.but have not found also 3 kopek is missing... how valuable 1k 1902 is now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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