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Today when I was at the flea market I found the coins below and bought all three for $5. I believe one is a widows mite, one Roman constantine, and one Russian wire money. Correct me on anything if I'm wrong.  Edited by Justinokay
05/24/2017 8:02 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I would have bought them! Ya done well.
LCS coin price total perhaps $25.
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05/24/2017 8:09 pm
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Excellent deal for 5 bucks.
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Pillar of the Community
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Well done!
Can you provide close-up shots?
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice pickup.. I haven't seen coins in so called "flea markets" near me. Ones around me are like group of little store selling mostly junk from overseas.
Edited by Coconutjoe
05/24/2017 8:33 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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@JO, with slightly better pics of that Russian wire money, you may be able to get a proper date and attribution from January1May. Here is a prior thread where this topic was discussed in some detail to get you started: http://goccf.com/t/279556"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Pillar of the Community
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I believe its from Peter the Great. I'll take another pic in a few minutes
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05/24/2017 10:47 pm
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Nope, can't do anything with it quickly. Name of ruler is entirely off flan.
I'll try to find it, but I might well end up with half a dozen possibilities all over the relevant period (1547-1717).
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Reverse (lettering) consistent with dated Peter I. (Too many similar varieties to be sure.)
Date is off flan though. (And the obverse photo, with the horse, is upside down.)
I'll try to search more specifically later.
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A VERY nice pick up for $5!  |
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Very nice haul. The only one that throws a red flag to me is the widow's mite,they are copied a lot. Maybe a pro can validate it for us. John1  |
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I think that the roman coin must be a Constantius II centenionalis...
"GLORIA EXERCITVS" ("The Glory of the Armies")
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This is a picture I found of a Peter the Great wire money, they look very similar.  |
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