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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DOC5K, post: 24863938, member: 151848&quot;]1757-1761 the Ekaterinburg and Sestroretsk mints did not use any marks, so it is not able to identify which mint. OR IS IT ?</p><p><br /></p><p>All engravers leave tell tale signatures in their work. One of my friends who recently&nbsp; passed away was an engraver at the Bureau of Printing and engraving. He said that all of them are registered with the secret service and that the experts can tell who engraved which printing plate.</p><p><br /></p><p>That may be old school. They may be doing everything by computer controlled Laser now.</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, these big 5Ks ARE Old School. </p><p><br /></p><p>Later Russian engravers added their own marks to their work. I think that a serious study of these coins could determine which Mint struck them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am too old to do it but someone out there is not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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