jefflgarrison Wrote:WHAT A COMEDIAN!!! Would you be so kind as to clarify "allot starting at about 18k". Do you mean you have a lot around the 18k mark OR alot and your lowest number is around the 18k mark.
Jeff,
What you consider rare and expensive was considered nothing special when I was collecting full time.
I have about 20 Red Stars with screw-post base and about a dozen of the lower numbered ones.
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What you consider rare and expensive was considered nothing special when I was collecting full time.
I have about 20 Red Stars with screw-post base and about a dozen of the lower numbered ones.
Jeff,
I don't want to make you cry, but I used to purchase ORS in batches of 20; out of each batch, there would be between 3 and 10 screpost base RS. And I never paid more that $9 a piece.
Added to that line above, someone's got a fake or did they make stars at Monety Dvor before they finished at Mondvor? Your star has a different mint mark and is a higher number.
Yours says "мондвор двор" instead of just "мондвор". Alex doesn't even show that as a major type.
Human beings worked (and still work) at the Mint. Errors did (and do) happen, quality varied from day to day, within acceptable parameters.
The Mondvor / Dvor mintmark is simply due to someone using the old stamp instead of the new one. Was it worth trashing an otherwise perfectly manufactured order? Obviously, the answer was "NO". I don't consider this to be a variation, but an error, which is quite different.
Jeff, here are the close-ups you requested. I am also sending an email with some scans of Nr. 12107 to Mr. Filer today to solicit his best thinking. I'll let you know what transpires. . .
