janneen Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 Hello! Added some new pictures of my russian coin collection. Rouble 1809, 10 kopeks 1810, Poltina 1859,... Janne http://www.omnicoin....ry=10045&page=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted February 3, 2012 Report Share Posted February 3, 2012 Hello! Added some new pictures of my russian coin collection. Rouble 1809, 10 kopeks 1810, Poltina 1859,... You had me going there for a second, I didn't realize you were putting the dates after the denominations so I went looking for the 1810 poltina to see if it was a type one. I never did manage to get one in any kind of condition I'd want to exhibit. I settled for one in Fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneen Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Which type is this one? http://www.ebay.de/itm/1-2-Rubel-Poltina-1810-Russland-Bitkin-80-RR-/120845438495 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted February 4, 2012 Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Assuming it's not a fake, it's the first 1810 type, the hard one. And priced fairly appropriately, at least for the market as I remember it from a few years back. Comparing it to the picture in GM I think it's quite possibly a fake. The biggest red flag to me is that there is no crossbar on the Н in МОНЕТА, which shows prominently both in GM and my much more worn specimen. Other parts of the lettering look pretty close to good, some look subtly wrong. HOWEVER, I am NOT an authenticator and so you should take that for what it's worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneen Posted February 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2012 Poltina and quarter rouble of this type are missing from my collection. Because I keep my coins at least XF or so they are probably missing forever...well, if I win in the lottery maybe then:o) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Waiting for this poltina to show up in XF might be foolhardy. I turned up my nose at a VF in an auction once, and it ended up going for $325. I've been kicking myself ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneen Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 "I turned up my nose at a VF in an auction once, and it ended up going for $325" Wow! That would be the same as winning in the lottery! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneen Posted February 5, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Some interesting coins in auction in my home country (11th february; see www.snynumis.fi): Alexander I 161. Rouble 1801 СПБ/AI. Novodel, 19,32 g. Bit H645 Very rare 01 AR 5.000 162. Rouble 180. Novodel, 21,65 g. Bit H667 Very rare, reverse struck with a broken die 01 AR 5.000 163. Rouble 1808 СПБ/МК. Bit 72 1+ AR 400 164. Rouble 1808 СПБ/МК. Bit 72, unsign. planchet defects, cleaned 1+ AR 250 165. Rouble 1810 СПБ/ФГ. Bit 75 1-1+/1+ AR 300 Some pictures http://snynumis.squarespace.com/storage/hk381/381pages05_08.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted February 5, 2012 Report Share Posted February 5, 2012 Janeen, your collection is wonderful! Thank you for sharing! Its great to see how we all differ in our criteria for feeding this addiction. I have had this one in my box for a few years, and this thread gives me a chance to put it up on omnicoin. To quote RW Julian's excellent reference, under the listing for 1809-10 Poltina "This type is difficult to locate in any condition" so heres one in "any" condition: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 Yes. He has a list early in his book of the ten types he considers toughest. I had uncirculated, sometimes prooflike uncirculated, examples, of 6 or 7 of them, and XF examples of the Russo-Polish. (See my avatar--a wings down Poltina!) But for that 1810 Poltina, I finally got one about like yours, squirrel. That $325 purchase was back in 2001, before the market went completely nuts. I was in the room while the auction was happening and was asleep at the switch. I had a shot at an AU one a couple years earlier, bid strongly (for that time), told the guy to call me back if I was outbid... and he didn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted February 6, 2012 Report Share Posted February 6, 2012 "Any" condition is a good way to describe my coin as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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