More: [img] [img] [img] [img] I avoided anything that doesn't exist such as double headed eagle or phoenix.
Here are some of mine: [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img] [img]
Why make replicas? It's just plain boring and kills talents who work in the mint.
Next time wear a glove. It doesn't cost any more than a couple of dollars. Fingerprints on a coin however will cost you a lot.
I am sure forum members will be happy to be close to spot if not a few percent over spot. 80% is low but that's if you desperately need the cash...
Would be hilarious if it's some obsecure flavor like Eskimo ice cream.
The rest are a bit on the nicer pieces: 1827 25 kopek [img] Relatively nice but ruined by a couple of solder marks 1834 Column ruble [img]...
Tougher coins that don't show up these days: 1728 kopek: [img] 1730 ruble double struck unfortunately holed: [img] 1731 denga over 1724...
Very nice coins Zantetsuken. I still don't have an Armavir coin. Still looking for it as well as Tannu Tuva coinage. Duke, Siberian coin price...
Since the world is getting stingy with copper, how about copper plated coins? I.e. US, UK, Canadian cents come straight up but there's a lot...
Can't see it being any higher than 5 dollars even factoring in the generous silver price and it being struck overseas. It's the wear that brings...
Siberian Man can give a better translation of what it means. It's somewhere along the line of "God bless Emperor Nicholas II and the whole of...
Prices of Russian coins were quite cheap 5 or so years ago. Prices have gone way out of proportions until the last 2 years when prices have...
Yes, it's AG or ( АГ ) as you might have seen.
I'll have to disagree with you Siberian Man. If you have Uzdenikov's book and if you read the section of foreign mint, Paris mint did strike some...
The mintmaster mark should be something like ( BC ) - it is in the brackets. If you see ( * ) or ( ** ), they were struck overseas in Paris or...
I don't have a problem buying fillers. Some times you need to grab what you can even though the coin can be worn, repaired, holed etc. There are a...
The 1861 silver coins if I am not mistaken were not struck in St. Petersburg but in Paris. That explains the missing mintmaster mark on the...
New record: 1681USD http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260694703190
I won this on ebay a while ago and received it recently. I've never felt so strangely when I held this particular "coin": [img] [img] Quoted...
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