Mystery Silver Coin

« on: February 20, 2011, 05:30:50 pm »

Hello All,

I have been wondering what this little silver coin is. It weighs 1.14g and its diameter is 13-15mm.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Cliff

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2011, 07:06:14 pm »

The legend is in Cyrillic; that may help for a start.

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 09:24:07 pm »

Still at a dead end with this one. Any thoughts? Bulgarian?

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 01:46:25 am »

No it is not just Cyrillic it is Russian. The legend is something as "Seal of Prince XXX Dimitri".

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2011, 09:45:17 pm »

Ahhh! Thanks Commodus and Explorer, but I still can't find a match! Anybody have any ideas or leads?

Thanks, and sorry to keep bugging you all about this one.

Regards,
Cliff

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2011, 11:36:52 pm »

This may help: http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/ecm.html

Looks like it is one of the earliest coins from Moscow (google is a wonderful thing!!!) and most likely Dimitri Donskoi.

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2011, 07:59:12 am »

Chris, you are the man! I was misspelling Dimitri as Dmitri and coming up with nothing. I will investigate further and see if I can find an exact match.

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2011, 03:11:01 pm »

Hello Cliff,

have you seen the following coin already?
http://www.mcsearch.info/record.html?id=165980
It looks like a twin of your coin.
But it has been withdrawn from auction by Stack's.
If the coin from Stack's is not your coin then it probably is a forgery because there cannot be two identical coins.

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Re: Mystery Silver Coin

« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2011, 03:26:12 pm »

Holy moly! It looks like the exact same coin. I bought it in a large lot from a dealer. I need to look at my eBay records to see who it was. The plot thickens. Or maybe the story is over!

At least I got to learn about Russian coins in the process!

Thanks!
Cliff

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