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Help ID Russian coin, please.

spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
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Just won this Russian kopek.. the dealer listed it as unknown ruler/date and I have no clue whatsoever, just thought it had a nice strike image

Any specific help or background in general on these type coins would be appreciated.
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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    Looks like wire money, but I don't know anything about the specifics. By the way, it appears to have a nice original patina on it, and it's in pretty high grade.

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    Hmm.. that's what I thought. I've seen these before, but never was interested enough to snap one up. This time I was bidding on other stuff from a seller, saw this one with a nice strike going too cheap so.. why not! image

    The writing seems too mushed for legibility, but I was hoping someone here might be familiar enough with these to spot a known pattern. Anyone?

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    btw, in German apparently these are called "tropfkopeken" -- drip kopeks (or it could translate as beggar's kopek?)

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  • 1jester1jester Posts: 8,637 ✭✭✭
    I guess that would be "drop kopeks" because they look like drops. They're pieces of wire silver, cut and struck. Sorry I can't help with the attribution, however.

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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