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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2004523, member: 42634&quot;]dougsmit recently started a thread about peter I wire money, this made me go on ebay and buy a small lot of wire money.&nbsp; yes..it made me do it.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I posted a few in that thread, but neither of these are peter the great coins, so i&#039;ll post them here.</p><p><br /></p><p>considering all the problems these coins have, this one is pretty nice.&nbsp; wish I had a better picture.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_5275_zpsd42a2356.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_5275_zpsd42a2356.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_5275_zpsd42a2356.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Wire Kopeck of Tsar Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuiskiy</p><p>1606-1610</p><p><br /></p><p>O: horseman holding a spear ,&nbsp; mint engraver&#039;s mark &quot;ПС&quot; below</p><p><br /></p><p>R:&nbsp; cyrillic legend&nbsp; (&quot;Czar and Great Duke Vasiliy Ivanovich of Entire Rus&quot;).</p><p>12x15 mm</p><p>0.7 g</p><p>Mint: Pskov</p><p><br /></p><p>this fellow is kind of interesting, became tzar (sort of) after taking out a &quot;fake&quot; tzar fellow who was impersonating one of ivan the terrible&#039;s grand kids.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_IV_of_Russia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_IV_of_Russia" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_IV_of_Russia</a></p><p><br /></p><p>this coin had some hard green gunk on the reverse, I&#039;m surprised it came off after a week long distilled water soak and some &quot;pickin&#039;&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]359708[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and this one, an ivan iv type I didn&#039;t have yet...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_5238_zps3ef871b8.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/102_5238_zps3ef871b8.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/102_5238_zps3ef871b8.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>Ivan IV</p><p>denga</p><p>1547</p><p><br /></p><p>O:&nbsp; horseman holding a sabre, the mint engraver&#039;s mark &quot;ДЕ&quot;, circular dotted line.</p><p>R:&nbsp; cyrillic legend&nbsp; (&quot;Czar and Grand Prince Ivan&quot;), circular dotted line.</p><p><br /></p><p>9x11mm</p><p>0.4 g</p><p>Mint: Moscow[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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