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Ngdawa Valued Member Sweden 347 Posts	Posted 04/03/2013 06:21 am Hi all! I just found this auction for this coin. It will end in less than 24 hours and I'm really eager to buy it, but, I want to be sure that I don't buy a replica. The coin is a square Russian 5 kopeek dated 1726, uniface. It should be in Copper and 19 or 22 mm (depends if it's the small och big type). Here is the picture from the auction. Please tell me what you think. Does it look authentic or fake? (The buyer says taht he bought it on the German ebay) Thanks! * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 04/03/2013 07:05 am If it is authentic, you should be looking to fork out more than 100,000 dollars. I think that tells you a lot... it's not cheap at all. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5172 Posts	Posted 04/03/2013 09:00 am This is so ridiculously crude it almost looks like an early counterfeit. Or, even more likely, it's intended to simulate a tourist's impression of the awful coin quality of the 1720s. ...If you didn't get it: fake either way. EDIT: Heck, even the spelling is wrong; on a real coin, the yat (the very high letter) should be after the E, not before it. (Of course, this is something very easy to get wrong; the spelling of this word actually changed a lot over the Russian Imperial period, and in fact the other ("cross") version of 5 kopek coins from 1726 had the spelling used on the OP coin!) Edited by january1may 04/03/2013 09:10 am Report this Post to the Staff
Ngdawa Valued Member Sweden 347 Posts	Posted 04/03/2013 11:14 am Wow, 100,000 dollars!? It's on 36 dollars right now He says that the weight ig 50 grams and the size is 5x4 cm and that it's 1-2 mm thick. I didn't quick follow you about the "yat"-error, january1may. The only yat is it the denomination "pyat' kopyeek'", right? (cuz kopyeek is spelled correctly). I like the speeling of Ekaterinburg though, too bad it changed Report this Post to the Staff
january1may Pillar of the Community Russian Federation 5172 Posts	Posted 04/04/2013 08:54 am Quote: cuz kopyeek is spelled correctly Exactly The real thing spelled it incorrectly. Report this Post to the Staff
Ngdawa Valued Member Sweden 347 Posts	Posted 04/07/2013 11:57 am Quote: Exactly The real thing spelled it incorrectly. Ah, sneaky Nice detail, well spotted! I saw that the acution ended on about $72. I e-mailed the seller but didn't get a reply. Report this Post to the Staff
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