gxseries Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 I honestly never thought of the day I would even obtain one of Peter III copper coins because of the scarcity and price, much less obtaining the entire set! Here are the pictures: Peter III copper coinages were scarce for a good reason - Peter III only ruled Russia for about 6 months and due to a copper shortage, all copper coins were ordered to be overstruck to be twice of the face value, i.e. 5 kopek coin as 10 kopek, 2 kopek as 4 kopek and 1 kopek as 2 kopek. This didn't last too long and in the next year, the coins were ordered to be re-overstruck over the next few years. This is an example: While Catherine II coins that were overstruck over Peter III coins are common, the same cannot be said for Peter III coins that were overstruck over Elizabeth I coins. As Peter III wasn't a popular Tsar, most of his coins if they did circulate were either overstruck or probably forgotten in people's pocket change, only to be discovered years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKB Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Congrats! Gx, but you are not done yet. Where is 1 kopek and denga? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Very nice. Interesting info too. Congratulations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted January 31, 2012 Report Share Posted January 31, 2012 Pretty cool! Congrats!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! I would not go as far as looking for 1 kopek and denga, but possibly you could also find a lettered edge 4 kopeks and 2 kopeks with a misspelled letter "u". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 Nice! I would not go as far as looking for 1 kopek and denga, but possibly you could also find a lettered edge 4 kopeks and 2 kopeks with a misspelled letter "u". not pretty.... but heres one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 It is hard to find pretty, even harder to afford them. I gave up mine in VF a long time ago thinking I will replace them with XF examples for reasonable money. Well, I am still looking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted February 1, 2012 Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 :bhtumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted February 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2012 BKB - I probably will have to rob a museum to find them! I would even be happy to find overstruck Catherine II examples of them - don't know when that can happen but you'll never know. Thanks everyone. The coin edges for all of them are net edge. While the 4 kopek seems to be struck on a fresh planchet, the other two seems to be overstruck. Surprisingly the coins didn't cost a fortune - just very lucky with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigistenz Posted February 2, 2012 Report Share Posted February 2, 2012 The overstriking of copper coins to double their value had already been planned under Elizabeth (there are 1760 and 1761 patterns of the 10 kopek), the reason not being a shortage of copper but a shortage of money - the need to finance the ongoing 7 years war. When Elizabeth died in late 1761, her successor Peter III executed the project in 1762. Sigi - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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