Here's one I received in the mail yesterday. This is 1 Ruble from the RUSSIAN EMPIRE dated 1762. Issued under the reign of Tsaritsa: Ekaterina Romanov II~The Great. Minted in Saint Petersburg.DetailsRUSSIAN EMPIRE~1 Ruble 1762
Quote from: Zantetsuken on December 19, 2010, 01:20:31 PMHere's one I received in the mail yesterday. This is 1 Ruble from the RUSSIAN EMPIRE dated 1762. Issued under the reign of Tsaritsa: Ekaterina Romanov II~The Great. Minted in Saint Petersburg.DetailsRUSSIAN EMPIRE~1 Ruble 1762I really like this one. I was just looking at the gold version of this in that Bonham's auction, thinking what a cool design it was.
Daniel, here's an overview of that auction - http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=catalogue&iSaleNo=18404&iSaleLotNo=1010I have the auction catalog, it turned out to be an interesting display of Russian gold from that era. I don't think I've seen most of those designs before.
Quote from: Billy Kingsley on December 16, 2010, 01:32:07 PMHere's my latest...rare for me of late to add something. This was an early Christmas present from my Mom.Malta 1998 1 cent, featuring the common weasel. Nice gift you received. Thanks for sharing it with us. Happy holidays.~Daniel
Here's my latest...rare for me of late to add something. This was an early Christmas present from my Mom.Malta 1998 1 cent, featuring the common weasel.
Finally getting back to purchasing. Here's a quick pic of my newest, a silver French jeton for the Melusine maritime insurance company, dating 1832. This design has been a hard find, so I had to jump on this one when the opportunity arose. Note the textured reverse fields, I don't recall seeing this technique used before--