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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terry Nield, post: 6444916, member: 116719&quot;]To Rhino89 &amp; other Coin Talk members:</p><p><br /></p><p>Your article on Russian Imperial Banknotes was well written and researched. While I&#039;m somewhat new to Coin Talk I have collected coins and banknotes off and on for sometime.&nbsp; Recently I have got reinterested in the Tsarist Russian banknotes. I especially like the look of some of the larger sized notes such as the 1912 500 Ruble issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>To echo some of your words, the issue on these notes on the market is often confusing, misleading and occasionally fraudulent. Nevertheless there are many vendors who are honest but many are not always knowledgeable. Too often they do not provide the names of the Russian bank administrators and cashiers that appear on the notes. Sometimes they are incorrect about signatures as well. Compounding this confusing state of affairs is the Russian Cyrillic alphabet--especially when written in cursive as is the case of the signatures. Quiet honestly I cannot make out much of the actual name from many signatures. I have also searched for lists of these names but at best they are incomplete or rare (thus hard to locate). Going back to my previous words, it is tricky trying to match a signature with a name written in either Latin or Cyrillic lettering.</p><p><br /></p><p>However I have managed to make out many of them. I found if one verifies a name and signature across multiple sales one can ascertain with a reasonable amount accuracy what matches what. This leads to my next discussion. As I am reasonably apt with image processing apps, I have begun to make a table of the Administrators and Cashiers to match with an image taken from images of banknotes on line. I have removed all of the background to leave only the actual signature on a white ground. I have also added the Cyrillic version of the names. Finally I have put the Pick # of notes with a particular combination of signatures. This is in a Word document. Currently, the file is about 15MB in size. A couple of caveats, first I will not say that the file is complete (have a number signatures that I cannot assign a name to, and would appreciate help with these), and there may be the odd error, not many and definitely not intentional. Certainly it is a work in progress.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you think that Coin Talk members would be interested and would find this table helpful, I will attempt to upload it(advise me if it is small enough to upload). I will say that these Russian banknotes are still a bargain and will take time to try and put together a complete series. The older notes are much scarcer and more expensive than 1898 and later. I do not believe that this price situation will last indefinitely into the future.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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