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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1991609, member: 19463&quot;]The lowest priced coin I got at the Fredericksburg show was a wire kopeck of Peter I of Russia.&nbsp; Oddly, within a week before I won another on eBay (for twice the price!) which arrived while I was at the show.&nbsp; The two make an interesting comparison of an issue where the dies were well over twice the size of the flans.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356630[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]356631[/ATTACH] </p><p>To make the point of the dies being large, the image below shows the two reverses overlapping showing parts of six lines of legend.&nbsp; Perhaps if I had access to enough of these, I could piece together the rest of each line but this gives the idea.&nbsp; This site did it in ten coins:</p><p><a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/peterwiremoney/peterwiremoney.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/peterwiremoney/peterwiremoney.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/peterwiremoney/peterwiremoney.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>While I find several coins which are year dated by the seller (1696-1717), I do not understand the system used.&nbsp; My second one was listed as 1699 (?).&nbsp;&nbsp; Finding coins with the date clear and the horseman on flan will take some luck.&nbsp; Can anyone provide a link that details the dating system?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]356632[/ATTACH] </p><p>The last image is a coin I have had for a while that would seem to add little since its tiny flan shows so little of the central part but it is interesting to me in the form of the T (in ETP) with drooping tails that is not like what we usually expect of a T.&nbsp; All three of these coins weigh a hair under 0.3g demonstrating the accuracy that could be achieved by cutting lengths of wire from a spool of known gauge.&nbsp; The last coin is twice as thick as the other two compensating for the smaller diameter.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]356633[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Post your Peter wires.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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