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january1may's Last 20 Posts
| 1700 Or 1702 Russian Empire - Kopeck - Wire Coin
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january1may
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 Posted Yesterday 3:28 pm
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So I see that Numista does not have a 1701 coin - I'll have to add mine. I'm not sure how you got the idea that Numista does not have a 1701 wire kopek!
The problem is actually in the opposite direction. Numista's coverage of Russian wire coinage is mainly based on the Kleshchinov-Grishin series of catalogs, which cover numerous minor die varieties (especially numerous for this period, with immense mintages of tiny coins).
[For the US collectors in the audience: this is roughly the equivalent of classifying Morgan dollars by VAM. Imagine a catalog that considered every single VAM to be a separate type; this is roughly what the Numista coverage of these kopeks looks like.]
Numista has thirty-four different listings for 1701 wire kopeks, and there's probably a few more types it can have but doesn't happen to.
I can try to figure out which variety you have (...if I manage to find enough data online), but attributing post-1700 wire kopeks is hilariously hard; approximately no one bothers with it (to such an extent that Kleshchinov and Grishin ended up making a simplified catalog for just figuring out the date, which doesn't even try to list out all the die combinations), and it honestly surprises me that Numista does. |
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| Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!
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january1may
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Posted 05/16/2025 4:54 pm
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Let's keep it simple with 1923.
 
(Weimar) Germany, 2 Rentenpfennig 1923-J
Exact match first, as usual
After 2 hours any 2 Rentenpfennig 1923
After 4 hours any 2 Rentenpfennig
After 6 hours any Rentenpfennig coin
After 9 hours any Weimar Republic coin (or any 1923 coin)
After 12 hours any German coin
After 18 hours any 20th century coin |
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| An Ancient And Old Coin
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january1may
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Posted 05/16/2025 4:45 pm
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If found in Iran, I suspect it's a Persian (Iranian or Afghan) civic copper, ca. 18th-19th century.
There's a lot of types of those, usually found badly worn, and I'm not sure if the photos here are enough to determine which specific type it is.
EDIT: the VVV design is likely (part of) a crude sun face. |
| | Forum: Ancient, Greek, Roman, and Medieval Coins |
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| Walking Back From 1600 With Dated Coins
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january1may
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Posted 05/16/2025 4:11 pm
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So many catch-ups!
...and so many new gaps, because we had almost nothing posted since we entered the 13th century. But at least the 15th and 14th centuries are filling up more.
Updated gap listing:
1464, 1463, 1462, 1457, 1454, 1446, 1414, 1409, 1408, 1407,
1385, 1384, 1382, 1381, 1367, 1363, (1361?,) 1360, 1356, 1350, 1349, 1348, 1347, 1346, 1345, 1344, (1342?,) 1341, 1340, 1339, 1337, 1336, 1335, 1333, 1332, 1331, 1330, 1328, 1309, (1307?), 1306, 1302, (1301?,) 1300,
1298, 1297, 1296, 1295, 1294, 1293, 1292, 1291, 1290, 1289, 1288, 1287, 1286, 1285, 1284, 1283, and we hadn't taken this train past that so far
(I split them by century for hopefully better readability)
On the 1342/743 coin: AFAICT it's disputed whether this type is supposed to read 743 or 744, and/or whether in fact both dates exist. I can't read Arabic so I'd need to ask you for it anyway.
I couldn't quite figure out what was going on with the 1301/700 coin either.
1307 is a question mark because of the 707 AH coin, whose conversion depends on Gregorian vs. Julian.
I found out recently that Wikidata has dates for AH years and months, and according to those it should convert to 1307, which is why it's another questionable entry. |
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| Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!
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january1may
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Posted 05/05/2025 04:37 am
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After 3 hours, any coin featuring the Queen Mother
After 6 hours, any coin featuring a monarch's nonreigning parent
After 9 hours, any coin featuring a mother and her child
After 12 hours, any coin featuring a mother
After 18 hours, any coin
[EDIT: ignore this post if you prefer triggersmob's version. I would have responded earlier, but happened to go asleep too soon after the challenge started, and only woke up a few minutes ago.] |
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| "Upgrading" Coins? Does Anybody Else Do This?
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january1may
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Posted 04/28/2025 2:30 pm
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I have never been one to play the upgrade game. When a hole is filled, it is filled. I do use upgrades sometimes - usually when my original hole-filler is particularly bad, or when I happen to buy a better example for other reasons (e.g. because it was very cheap) and decide it is a better fit for that hole.
I think I wouldn't be interested in trying to make a full BU set, but I'd almost surely want to swap out the corroded FR-2 details hole-fillers if/when I can reasonably easily afford something better. Granted, this usually isn't a problem in most US Modern cases (where VG or better examples are almost always reasonably available).
EDIT: essentially what NumisRob said, except that I don't (yet) take trips to USA. |
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| Walking Back From 1600 With Dated Coins
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january1may
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Posted 04/27/2025 09:45 am
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I'm strongly unconvinced that the date on your "AH 701" coin is really 701; I can confirm 70X, but either 2 or 6 would be much more plausible for X than 1 (for a 1 I'd expect a much bigger gap and probably visible traces of the circle).
Without seeing a lot more examples I can't tell for sure if 2 or 6 is more plausible (there's only one Zeno example for either). I'd probably have guessed 6 because of how close the next character is, though.
The others look good (I was a bit doubtful of the 704, but on further look the internal triangle on the 4 is clear).
Updated gap listing: 1464-2, 1457, 1454, 1446, 1414, 1409-7, 1385-4, 1382-1, 1367, 1363, (1361?,) 1360, 1356, 1350-44, 1342-39, 1337-5, 1333-0, 1328, 1309, 1307-6, and we've had every date past that so far (1301 doesn't yet count as a gap because it could still be posted later today).
I'll probably switch the listing back to separate dates (and recheck it) after the next time an existing gap get filled, because that way makes it a lot easier to adjust for those cases. |
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| Which Rulers Of England Didn't Issue Coins During Their Reign ?
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january1may
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Posted 04/21/2025 05:04 am
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Edward V probably did issue coins but there's some debate on whether there were any specific varieties that were only issued during his reign; AFAICT the usual conclusion is that there probably are, and consequently a few varieties are attributed to him in the catalogs.
(Regnal numerals were not used on English coinage at the time, so Edward IV coin types could continue unchanged for Edward V.)
Apparently there are no known coins in the name of Edmund Ironside; it seems likely that some of the very latest subtypes in the name of his father Aethelred were actually issued under him, but AFAICT no specific ones have been identified yet.
Edward VIII did technically issue some coin types, but only for colonies. None of these have his portrait, because he never got around to approving one (and it probably helped that his reign did not span a year change). There are a few surviving pattern UK coins from his reign, all of which are very rare.
I'm not sure if your list has Sweyn Forkbeard. That's another awkward one... |
| | Forum: United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coins |
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| Walking Back From 1600 With Dated Coins
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january1may
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Posted 04/18/2025 1:47 pm
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What an interesting coin! Though the previous ones were nice too.
No change in the gaps so far: 1464-2, 1457, 1454, 1446, 1414, 1409-7, 1385-4, 1382-1, 1367, 1363, (1361?,) 1360, 1356, 1350-44, 1342-39, 1337-5, 1333-0, 1328, and we have yet to miss anything since then.
(If we get past 1300 without missing any more, I'll probably expand the listings again, because that way they're easier to count.) |
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| US Treasury Ordered To Stop Producing New Cents
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january1may
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Posted 04/16/2025 5:59 pm
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Why not get rid of the nickel too? If you get rid of the cent, it makes no "cents" to keep the nickel!!! The problem is that in that case either at least one of the dime and quarter also has to go, or you'd have trouble when someone technically has more money than the (rounded) price but there's no remaining way to give change.
(Now, there have been countries where the lowest denominations were [equivalent to] 2 and 5 cents, and even worse cases like the ever-popular Venezuelan 12 1/2 cent coin. I'm sure they somehow figured out how to get around that problem.) |
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| Post Your Papal States Coins - Reverse Chronological Schedule By Ruler
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january1may
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Posted 04/15/2025 4:31 pm
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Also, interesting that my example has such a faint X in XIII for Gregory's number obverse that it looks more like GREGORIVS III. Not sure if that's coin wear, die wear or if the engraver somehow lost track of what he was doing with the lettering over there, since it also looks like the letter O in PONT was done twice. Given the visibly misaligned lettering lines, my guess would be a very weak double strike, but I'm not sure why the other strike would only show up there...
I think the intended X does indeed show very faintly after the name, but only for about half of its length before it intersects with the following I. Maybe the legend was somehow done in sections and the III PO section was punched again? But I think a weak double strike is more realistic than that.
[EDIT: yeah, double strike. It can also be seen at 12h of the reverse.] |
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| How Far Back Can We Go? Eighth Edition!
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january1may
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Posted 04/15/2025 4:22 pm
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I got confused which date we're on (because of all the 1800 and 1799 coins being posted), so here's the bottom half of a Russian 2 kopecks from Paul I dated 1798.
 
I'll try to check if I have any pics of my 1797 cartwheel pennies. Always wondered why they're so often found so worn; I thought they were very unpopular.
[EDIT: added the coin - oops!] |
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