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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 162487, member: 4373&quot;]Russian coins is under my speciality. The catalogue is spot on this time. Doug, you should save the files that I have included.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, there were &quot;Russian ducats&quot; which were minted in St. Petersburg as a big major scam to flood the European market. The project appearently started from 1768 and it was getting quite obvious in 1798 that the Russians were up to no good especially when you comapre the image of the ducats to this: </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/901680.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a useful material reference that you should read and it will tell you the differences. It seems that the Russian designs were a bit too superior that got them into trouble. Now instead of reading all my text, reading the real material would be a lot better. The following images are from Uzdenikov, Russian coins 1700-1917 second edition. (250k for each file)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7206/rusducat1yl0.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7206/rusducat1yl0.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/7206/rusducat1yl0.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1119/rusducat2gy2.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1119/rusducat2gy2.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/1119/rusducat2gy2.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2939/rusducat3ia8.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2939/rusducat3ia8.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/2939/rusducat3ia8.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8857/rusducat4wo0.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8857/rusducat4wo0.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/8857/rusducat4wo0.jpg</a></p><p><a href="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4841/rusducat5wq4.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4841/rusducat5wq4.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/4841/rusducat5wq4.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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