gxseries Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Have been getting these as a lot of Russian coins that I want are getting too expensive. A lot of these are from Soviet era. Most of them are reasonably priced. Maybe these may interest you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art1.2 Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Neat medals. It's good to have an alternate path in your collecting when the prices start getting unreasonable. I especially like the relief on that 1977 medal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 I find the one sided ones to be interesting. Must be some kind of die trials or possibly they were meant to be inserted in to something more elaborate. The one with legend "V. I. Lenin" is not of Russian make. Must be German (DDR) or something like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 The 60D on the 1917-1977 medal looks like GOD!!! I suspect he would not be amused. On second thoughts.......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
constanius Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 One of the few modern medals that I own 37mm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_%22In_Commemoration_of_the_800th_Anniversary_of_Moscow%22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
one-kuna Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 above medal was awarded to 800 anniversary of Moscow city found, similar as to Kiev found 1500 years ago - were awarded at their working places as i said earlier to people of Moscow and Kiev topic starter medals - one sided medals can be not pattern but just one sided i remember from the past and were sold as souvenier at many places in republic capitals like Moscow, Kiev, Kishinev, Minsk, etc IMXO lasr medal topic starter is from 1912 - one hundred years from patriotic war I where Napoleon was biten by Russians and allians, cannot guarantee its authenticy from this pic but generally looks ok to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 The high relief Lenin medal is appearently made in Hungary as shown here: With regards to the first medal, a quick search on google with the die engraver "A. Kaasik" comes up with Estonian links. Quite interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 I like that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 It makes sense that the one in high relief is of Hungarian make - the face of Lenin is not done in the Russian Soviet style, just liike in the German one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 still nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Yes, they are nice. BTW, in 60D that is not a D, but hammer and sickle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 Somewhere in a box I have some table medals that I purchased in USSR - will be interesting to find because everything has a receipt showing how much it cost etc. One thing I sort of regret not purchasing before leaving was a bust of Lenin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted June 11, 2013 Report Share Posted June 11, 2013 You gonna show us some of them scotishmoney? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 The 60D on the 1917-1977 medal looks like GOD!!! I suspect he would not be amused. On second thoughts.......... Look really closely at the D--it's actually a stylized hammer and sickle. Obviously the 60 is meant to mean 60 years. But the word for "year" in Russian is год, which translitered is... wait for it... "god" (but prononounced more like goad"). So you COULD really stretch matters and say the 60+hammer and sickle actually does mean "60 god!" Alas, this word forms its plural irregularly, depending on specifically how many the plural might be. It's "год," (numbers ending in 1) "года" (numbers ending in 2-5) or "лет" (numbers ending in 6-0). So sometimes the "god" thing doesn't work. In fact 60 must be one of those cases where the plural is лет. Which ruins the joke. (Doggone it.) Russians when giving the calendar year (e.g., 2013) will recite (or write) the number and likely as not add "года" to it (no matter what the last digit of the year is) because that's a different gramatical case of the word год, and in writing will abbreviate it "г." That even sometimes shows up on the date on coins, either abbreviated (as on Nicholas II rubles and gold) or not. In fact on the 1826 half ruble in my avatar, the date below the eagle reads "1826 ГОДА." "1826" by itself just wouldn't say it, for a Russian. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 That was interesting Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Steve did a good job there. Small correction - "год" (singular) is 1, "года" is 2-4, "лет" is 5-0. And in larger numbers it is not quite as described, but close, depending on the number.For example, 11 is "лет" (ends with 1), but 101 is "год" (also ends with 1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 What form would 21 take? I am starting to remember that numbers ending in 11 are of the лет form but 21, 31, etc use год. Is that correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted June 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 I know what next year's medal PCI winner would be That said, I wasn't expecting this to generate such an interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 What form would 21 take? I am starting to remember that numbers ending in 11 are of the лет form but 21, 31, etc use год. Is that correct? You are correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve D'Ippolito Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Thank you, Igor. And as a thank you for the education, let me tell you about the American worker in Moscow who got pulled over by a policeman, who started to explain to the American what he had done wrong. The American (who must have had a few lessons in Russian, but not nearly enough) interrupted the stream of Russian to inform the cop "Я не понедельник! Я не понедельник!" which certainly proved the American's point. Unfortunately I was too busy laughing at this part of the story to follow the rest of it and find out how the incident ended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IgorS Posted June 22, 2013 Report Share Posted June 22, 2013 Thank you, Steve. Yes, Monday in Russian carries totally different meaning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted June 24, 2013 Report Share Posted June 24, 2013 I don't know grammar. None! And I mean that about any language, not just Russian. But I believe that 'лет' can only be applied to age, so you can say "I am (мне) 11 лет", but 'год' means literary 'year' so whether it's 2011, 1011, 111 or just 11 AD it will always be 'год'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EugeneG Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 I don't know grammar. None! And I mean that about any language, not just Russian. But I believe that 'лет' can only be applied to age, so you can say "I am (мне) 11 лет", but 'год' means literary 'year' so whether it's 2011, 1011, 111 or just 11 AD it will always be 'год'. Not only age. "лет" can be also applied to the period in time, for example. "11-й год" , like in "11 AD", is the object itself, while "I'm 11 years old(мне 11 лет)" is the trait of particular object/person. Not starting linguistic discussion, let's just note that "лет" is just plural form genitive case of word "год". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 Stuff like this is what makes coins and medals so fascinating. It's a study that leads to (to mention just a few things) history, economics, metallurgy, minting technology, art, different cultures and languages - even grammar! There is always something new to learn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsraghead Posted June 25, 2013 Report Share Posted June 25, 2013 I'm learning a whole lot that I never knew that I never knew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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