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I am such a Bonehead...I just realized that on Numista you could type in "on horseback" and come up with possible matches. I was under the impression you could only search text from the coin itself. Uhh Doyy!  Edited by chafemasterj
02/02/2018 3:50 pm
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 Numista is a great tool! Another cool feature I found out and use often (its no secret, but I hadnt known about it) is if you dont know the exact year, but you can pin it down to a range you can put the year as 1250-1650 for example. Between the date range, weight and diameter, you can usually cut the search down considerably. |
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I've never tried that. Good tip  |
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Numista is a great tool! I'm going through about 150 foreign coins using Numista. Can't be without it |
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New for me as well - thanks!
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The horse side reads "Bank of Russia" the other "5 Kopeks" so yah...
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Yes, Russia, 5 kopek.
This one does appear to have a mintmark, though (M for Moscow).
EDIT: fun fact - at the time of issue, this coin was worth, in exchange rate, about 0.18 US cents. It was not, however, the lowest Russian denomination (the 1 kopek, corresponding to 0.04 cents, was also made in 2003).
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02/02/2018 7:16 pm
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What do England and Russia have in common?
Numismatically speaking, of course.
(psst ... Christian iconography)
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Use of St. George slaying the dragon on their coinage (Russia began first)
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Russia began first To be fair, Russian coins did have an image of a horseman with a spear (no dragon) before it was reinterpreted as Saint George. (There is some dispute as to whether this horseman started out as Saint George originally, but at least for a while the image was supposed to represent the ruler.) Even so, the first Russian coins to definitely feature Saint George as such (including the dragon) came out in 1728, decades before the corresponding English coins. (I have one of the 1728 coins, incidentally.) So yes, Russia began first anyway. Fun fact: the name of the monetary unit "kopek" comes from the Russian word for "spear". This apparently originated from a new large type (well, large compared to other contemporary types - by modern standards, all of them were tiny) introduced in the 1530s that showed a horseman with a spear (and not a sword, as previously). |
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