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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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It's an album that I didn't get around to design since a couple of years ago but finally finished how I want it to look like. Just missing one coin otherwise it would be complete. Please feel free to view here: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_n...et_album.pdfLow resolution but you get the idea. :) |
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Germany
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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That's quite impressive, you actually made this album from scratch to collect and compile a type set? I am sure you used archival materials but it appears the coins are pushed into the holes without windows like Dansco and others use and you can see the obverse and reverse without them falling out. It looks so professional.  |
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Serbia (Srbija)
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 very nice |
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
842 Posts |
You should patent this. I'm serious! This is very well done. I think there are people out there who would love to have this type-set book. If you had the time you could go and make the separate books for each series as well. It would take time, yes, but in the end I think you could make quite a bit of money on this (if that is a goal of yours). I have never seen albums or books for Russian Soviet coins before, so they either don't exist or are very rare and difficult to locate. I'm sure that you could find a publisher who would make these up for you in bulk so that you could start a business of selling these.
Perhaps I have gone too far, but it is an exciting and attainable possibility. You should be very proud of this album. It is very professional and clean. Congrats on a big accomplishment!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Very nice type collection and excellent job on the album presentation. On the one missing coin, what is the mintage and value in a condition similar to the rest of the set? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Is this purely virtual or there is a hard counterpart? Looks very impressive!
A minor suggestion. Some people looking at this may not know the relationship of kopeck to ruble, and I bet quite a few people won't know the relationship of ruble to chervonets. I'd put it somewhere.
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Quite some effort, a well presented numismatic statement, and a credit to you.
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Pillar of the Community
 Australia
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Thanks everyone for your kind words. Did spend a lot of time but it's well worth it. TheNickelGuy: Unfortunately it's a digital coin album - all of the coins are real though. Ancientcoinguy: I could patent this album but I still would not be able to find a publisher who could make this. Might sell this idea to Dansco and see how it goes from there. Russian coins are really hot afterall - would be surprised if there are no takers at all. Afterall, this is modelled after what a 'Dansco type' album would look like with Soviet coins. Could always change the background which is the beauty of digital coin albums. jeffrose: That 1935-36 5 kopek coin is one that I have been looking for years and just can't seem to find one that I'm happy with or the price is ridicious. There's no mintage available for most of the Soviet coins but it's not easy to find this particular year. 5 kopek in general are slightly harder to find compared to the other denominations. It's home to a few key dates as well such as the 1970 5 kopek and the 1935 old style 5 kopek - easily in hundreds of dollars. svslav - it's 100% virtual except the coins which are all my coins. Would definitely keep in mind of putting the relationship in. Afterall, this is editable and there's still plenty of space to put text. --- Spoiler if you are reading this last line: working on occupied China type set album.  |
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Russian Federation
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Would ideally prefer that the album includes some labels for the types other than the dates. I.e., instead of (or as well as) 26-31, 31-35, 35-36, 37-46, 47-56 and 57, list them as 7 Turns* With Motto, 7 Turns No Motto, 11 Turns, 13** Turns, 16 Turns, and 15 Turns *) can't remember the English word for it  the lines the wreath makes over the COA **) well, I think it's 13, don't remember exactly |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow! How do you create albums like this?
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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January1may - I know what you mean. Number of ribbons - all those ribbons depended on how many countries joined the Soviet Union. Just thought it would make it look too complicated with too much text.
Tzarmarko - lots of time on photoshop. Could have clocked more than 100 hrs just to create something like this.
My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Very nice!
(Greetings again from the USA).
Bill
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Russian Federation
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OK, another idea... if your album is supposed to mimic/parody a Dansco 7070, why isn't there a hole (or even several holes) for Soviet commemorative roubles?
I personally feel that a commem, or "Olympic", rouble is a must for anything aspiring to be a Soviet coinage type collection (they even actually circulated - my collection includes a few of those).
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Pillar of the Community
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I agree. I just found out that I have 95% of all the commemorative roubles issued in Russia from 1979-1991. Also, If you do end up making a full album with holes and such, could you possible release a template of your album so that all that we would need to do is insert the digital coins. I would love this!
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Posted 05/07/2012 09:45 am
