gxseries Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Thought this looked quite nice: Usually found in a much worse condition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted March 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 I thought I can sell off my duplicate but it turns out it has a different variety... notice the gap between the 77 in the date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 The Moldavia coins are real stinkers to find nice examples of, unless you opt for recent "tributes" like I have found in coin bazaars in Ukraine. Actually I have never seen a real Moldavian coin in Ukraine, just lots of fakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 gxseries' coin has very nice so-called yellow color Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saor Alba Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 This is my daughter's coin because it was made near to where she was born and she liked it: And these are fakes purchased in bazaar in Donets'k: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 fakes are very nice color, i wish genuine coins can be same color in our collections Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobh Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Notice how the two pre-revolutionary characters "ѣ" (Cyrillic letter "Yat" -- the terminating one was a misspelling also on genuine coins, it should have been a hard sign = "ъ") are of different sizes on the last fake (image here on the left), whereas they are approximately equal in size on the genuine coins (cf. Brekke 16). There is also a misspelling ("3" mirrored instead of "E") in the image on the right -- however, this was also misspelled on the genuine coins. Workers at the various mints were often practically illiterate at the time, so it comes as no surprise that mistakes of this nature sometimes occurred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted March 5, 2012 Report Share Posted March 5, 2012 mayby it is greek E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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