gxseries Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Bought a low grade coin - do you think it's EM mintmark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicholasz219 Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 The "E" in the mintmarks on the coins of Paul I seem to wear very poorly and almost always wear to what to me looks like a square shape before disappearing altogether. I wonder if it has something in common with the weak strikes in the centers of the 5 and 10K's from the 1830's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extant4cell Posted April 28, 2013 Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 I like the yellow color of your EM (KM or AM would be more interesting) ... Even EM's are becoming more difficult to find. Here is mine: that I recently upgraded with this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted May 14, 2013 Report Share Posted May 14, 2013 I like the second one much better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 nice upgrade! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extant4cell Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Thank you! Bough it on Molotok.ru through my 007 agent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Thank you! Bough it on Molotok.ru through my 007 agent smuggled out of the Motherland in a tin of Beluga Caviar, no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Back in the day "a guy I used to know" bought a coin from Russia on ebay. Not expensive. A couple of weeks later, a thick package arrived. A book about Pushkin, in Russian. What the heck?! No note of explanation. Just a book. On shaking the book nothing fell out. Feeling a bit duped he looked through the book anyway as there were pictures. One of the pages felt a little 'different'. On looking more carefully he was surprised to find two pages carefully glued together, the coin nestled between them. This wasn't a wire kopeck or anything tiny like that and it was amazing that the book just seemed to absorb the volume of the coin. You could never tell it was there. Cloak-and-dagger stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Were they that hard to get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 They were cheaper in Russia but still illegal to export. I guess the seller didn't want any 'problems' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extant4cell Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Alas, typical USSR stuff... it is the whole truth... You can only send the coins there -----------> but not <--------- back. There are a few people on e-bay from Russia and Ukraine that I encountered through the years who sell coins and may be happy to help you to get something from a local auctions for a small commission. You never know if you will get it, but so far I have never had a problem. As long as it is not a heavy item for the letter... After all, it is not a rare coin. Still I wish they would change the hypocritical export law in regards to coins. It only makes people feel bad, I doubt it really serves the purpose, not when Russia is in the free market space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEVE MOULDING Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 smuggled out of the Motherland in a tin of Beluga Caviar, no doubt. Is this how you get your coins, Josh? Sounds fishy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Is this how you get your coins, Josh? Sounds fishy. The hard part is finding the tin from the Sturgeon you fed the coin to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 Lol. I bet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extant4cell Posted May 17, 2013 Report Share Posted May 17, 2013 The hard part is finding the tin from the Sturgeon you fed the coin to! LOL You guys are funny! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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