1851 coin russian maybe?

[Guest dean]

you guys know your onions...

Might be russion or Polish maybe?

Can you identify this....

http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/users/wig774276.jpg

http://www.auctionpix.co.uk/users/hon774277.jpg

Thanks,

[kuhli]

It is indeed a Russian 3 kopeks coin from the reign of Czar Nicolas I.

There are 2 different mint marks for this coin (I cannot make it out in your pictures), below the date.

It will be either EM (Ekaterinaburg)

• mintage 3½ million
  
• VG=US$2, F=US$4, VF=US$7.50
  

or BM (Warsaw)

• mintage 100 thousand
  
• VG=US$4, F=US$7.50, VF=US$15
  

[Guest dean]

thats great, thank you!

I think its EM.