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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4971747, member: 110504"]It has that oblong flan that you want from 'wire money.' Named after the striking process; the flans were cut from long bands of flattened silver.</p><p>And you've got a Lot of reverse legend. The people here who can read Russian (Teacher, I Don't raise my hand) --and there Are some, who are also Much better versed in the series generally-- can help you with that. It will reliably give you the name of the issuing monarch.</p><p>...Some of them go back to the 15th century, if not before. I have one representative example of Ivan the Terrible; scared to even try to find the .jpg. But the obverse has St. George slaying the dragon. A very common motif in Russian ikony, contemporaneously and later.</p><p>...Wait! Maybe your obverse Isn't St. George and the dragon. Very impressionistically, variations of that obverse are more distinctive of the earlier issues. Several of which predate the formally Tsarist ones. With the clarity of the legend, it's like, consider the source, but you Might have something Very interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4971747, member: 110504"]It has that oblong flan that you want from 'wire money.' Named after the striking process; the flans were cut from long bands of flattened silver. And you've got a Lot of reverse legend. The people here who can read Russian (Teacher, I Don't raise my hand) --and there Are some, who are also Much better versed in the series generally-- can help you with that. It will reliably give you the name of the issuing monarch. ...Some of them go back to the 15th century, if not before. I have one representative example of Ivan the Terrible; scared to even try to find the .jpg. But the obverse has St. George slaying the dragon. A very common motif in Russian ikony, contemporaneously and later. ...Wait! Maybe your obverse Isn't St. George and the dragon. Very impressionistically, variations of that obverse are more distinctive of the earlier issues. Several of which predate the formally Tsarist ones. With the clarity of the legend, it's like, consider the source, but you Might have something Very interesting.[/QUOTE]
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