Identify this coin?

[Red_desert]

Does anyone know what this coin is? It was not dug....
There is no English on the coin to do a search for it. Thanks!
Oh, I should have measured it, is a large coin.

 

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[Mac232]

Russian 5 Kopek


Mac

 

[Red_desert]

Thank you very much Mac. I have another coin which is obviously Russian, has a hammer and sickle on it. The color of that one is like shining brass (gold?). Did they have any gold coins?

 

[Red_desert]

Here is the other coin. I thought the two photos I'd snapped were front and back. Now it turns out, must have forgotten to turn it over. This coin doesn't look so brassy now, as when in sunlight. I see now the letters are similar, didn't notice before.

 

[Mackaydon]

I think the coin is a 5 Lepta from Greece
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=186
Don.......

 

[Cerulean]

First coin: Greece, 5 Lepta, 1879 (minted 1878-1882)
http://tinyurl.com/2k5u2c

second coin: Soviet Union, ?? Kopeks, c.1930
Looks similar to this...
http://tinyurl.com/2ubf67
I won't be able to tell you the exact denomination and date without seeing the other side of the coin, but it should be obvious.

 

[Mackaydon]

BTW, this coin was engraved by Albert Desire Barre, Chief Engraver of the Paris Mint--with his inscribed name spelled in Greek BAPPE. Much more on the background of your top coin (with various denominations) can be found here:
http://www.dewardt.net/dimebook/Greece.pdf

 

[Red_desert]

BTW, this coin was engraved by Albert Desire Barre, Chief Engraver of the Paris Mint--with his inscribed name spelled in Greek BAPPE. Much more on the background of your top coin (with various denominations) can be found here:
http://www.dewardt.net/dimebook/Greece.pdf

Thank you very much, his last year as coin engraver (designing?) was 1878. That means it must have been minted the next year, in 1879. Possibly my coin is of the last work he did? Or were coins produced a year in advance? Anyway, I glad to learn about it. My first thoughts were possibly Greek...that would have been right.

 

[Red_desert]

First coin: Greece, 5 Lepta, 1879 (minted 1878-1882)
http://tinyurl.com/2k5u2c

second coin: Soviet Union, ?? Kopeks, c.1930
Looks similar to this...
http://tinyurl.com/2ubf67
I won't be able to tell you the exact denomination and date without seeing the other side of the coin, but it should be obvious.

I'll have to get the Soviet coin back out again, was doing a test with my digital SLR (above photos). Right now the Soviet coin is in with some other loose coins. May have to use my small digital camera since just downloaded the 1 GB memory on the SLR.

One way or another, soon as I get time will get the other side for you to see. Thanks for your help!

 

[Red_desert]

Here it it is, used the small digital camera. But look at the damage! Must be reason why didn't photograph this side. Not a dug coin, so not my fault...

 

[Cerulean]

Aha, it's one of these, then: http://tinyurl.com/2gnu7p
Soviet Union, 5 kopeks (cents), 1930.

I see you're in Goshen, Red_Desert. I grew up in Middlebury. Small world...

 

[Red_desert]

Aha, it's one of these, then: http://tinyurl.com/2gnu7p
Soviet Union, 5 kopeks (cents), 1930.

I see you're in Goshen, Red_Desert. I grew up in Middlebury. Small world...

So, now I also have the 5 Kopeks too...amazing. Middlebury, that is close to me. I had a GPAA member tell me a friend of his recovered flour gold dredging in Bristol. There is a lot of large quartz float right where i live. Elkhart county got a lot of the glacial drift gravel deposits. No bedrock, bad news for gold prospecting, need something to stop the gold. I find 6-7 inch chunks of milk quartz, also a few slightly rose or pink colored.

I'm assuming, since both of them dredge, that is how the gold was recovered. But, I've never dredged and can't say whether a dredge will keep the flour gold. However it was done, I'm sure he had to work for even the flour gold.