Tannu Tuva coinage 1934

[gxseries]

These coins seem to be hard to find. Much harder to assemble as a set. Fair enough, if you fork out hundreds of dollars, you'll definitely get nicer ones. Nevertheless, here's a couple of them.





If I am not wrong, these were struck in Leningrad. One year coinage. An interesting era of coinage where Tuva tried to declare independence and now is a part of the Russian Federation.

[ciscoins]

Much harder, or even impossible, is to find 1933. I have met only one image of such coin, but there must be all the denominations from that year.

[Figleaf]

I can do better. I have never seen a single type of Tannu Tuva Those coins certainly "lived in interesting times".

Peter

[gxseries]

Never thought I would see a Tannu Tuva coin dated 1933 - believed they were only struck in 1934. That said, for 5 kopek coins struck in 1933 to 1935 - they are key dates that do cost a fair amount of money. Tannu Tuva coins happen to be struck in the same mint and same era. Makes you wonder if anything big happened back then.

[Zantetsuken]

Tuva coins are indeed hard to find. Not quite as difficult as Armavir coins, but close enough. That's a beautiful 1933 issue 'ciscoins'. I didn't realize they existed. In any case, here's one from my collection. 15 Kopejek.

[Afrasi]

I can add only a ruin of a piece of 3 Kopeek.

[bgriff99]

This screwball alphabet, used for what appears to be Turkish send me to Wikipedia.   It was something invented in 1930, and eliminated in 1943.  They use Russian now, with 3 added letters.   Makes the coins that much more a window into a vanished time.

[natko]

It might be good to post a pic of an aluminium 20 kopeek piece from 1934. Offered on ebay for some time now.

[MORGENSTERNN]

Hello
I'd like to know more about weights of those coins because I got a 5K with a weight of 4.77g and I saw one actually to sold on Ebay with a weight of 5.03g (Krause don't give weights of those coins).
My coin seems a genuine one but the surface is porous.
Is it a fake or the result of a chemical cleaning on a very used coin that could explain the difference of weight ?
Or maybe there is variations in weights of this issue : it would be nice if other members give here the weight of their coins.

[Figleaf]

Have you done a "ping test" on your coin?

Peter

[MORGENSTERNN]

Have you done a "ping test" on your coin?

yes the coin rings clear and the edge is the same than genuine example

[MORGENSTERNN]

Something else,
My coin got a medal alignment but on Numista it is wrote that this coin should got coin alignment
see here http://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27103.html
I am a little lost with this coin but as it was stroke in interesting time variations should be expected I guess

[Figleaf]

I would advise you to send a PM to the other members who have posted in this thread.

Peter

[MORGENSTERNN]

Hello,

I found here a table with the weight of Tannu Tuva coins

http://coinss.com/catalog_soviet/tuva_en.html

Please note that the edge of 5 K. is here mentioned as reeded (as my coin) while Numista indicate a smooth edge, see here

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces27103.html

Thank you

[MORGENSTERNN]

Hello
Zeno give the weight of 4.645 g for a 5 Kopekejek example here https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=174685