Dealers that come to this show have various world coins, so if there happened to be some kind of world coins that you can't get hold of, whether it's Aussie or US coins, etc, just post it here as you will never know what I can possibly find.
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There is a coin fair coming here in Sydney and it's a fairly moderately large one. It is open today till the end of this week, but it is raining fairly bad today, so I'll be there tomorrow morning.
Dealers that come to this show have various world coins, so if there happened to be some kind of world coins that you can't get hold of, whether it's Aussie or US coins, etc, just post it here as you will never know what I can possibly find.
Dealers that come to this show have various world coins, so if there happened to be some kind of world coins that you can't get hold of, whether it's Aussie or US coins, etc, just post it here as you will never know what I can possibly find.
I ended up looking for what Vfox wanted. The ANDA coin fair was fairly interesting as there were a fair amount of people hoarding silver and gold coins and sales are just ridicious. I kind of felt that prices were more expensive than before for almost all coins, and didn't make much purchases this time.
Here are the images that I bought:
Here are the images that I bought:
Can't go wrong with old Chilean, Mexican, and Russian! The 5 Decimo is killer btw! 
Neat! I've never seen one of those square cardboard coins before. Must be pretty weird receiving a piece of paper that depicts a coin and told it's "money" 
Nice you got the 1988 Rouble in proof.
QUOTE(ccg @ Aug 5 2006, 09:13 PM)
Neat! I've never seen one of those square cardboard coins before. Must be pretty weird receiving a piece of paper that depicts a coin and told it's "money"
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Isn't that kind of how our fiat currency works nowadays? lol
You've got a new PM vfox
Those Chilean coins are pretty neat really. Only wished that they were much larger.
Those Chilean coins are pretty neat really. Only wished that they were much larger.
That's ok though, I like small coins too, some of my favs are the US half dimes....so tiny, with such great detail.
Anywho, I sent you a PM, talk with you shortly.
Anywho, I sent you a PM, talk with you shortly.
QUOTE(Vfox @ Aug 6 2006, 10:47 AM)
Isn't that kind of how our fiat currency works nowadays? lol
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There's some real nice stuff in there 
However, there's a mis-print on one of the coin holders.
It's a russian 1 rouble, with a statue on it. I'm talking about this coin:
The coin holder says 1988, but the coin is actually from 1965. Neither the obverse and reverse hold a date, but it's present in the edge lettering.
This coin commemorates the 20th aniversary of defeating german fascism : 1945 + 20 = 1965
However, there's a mis-print on one of the coin holders.
It's a russian 1 rouble, with a statue on it. I'm talking about this coin:
The coin holder says 1988, but the coin is actually from 1965. Neither the obverse and reverse hold a date, but it's present in the edge lettering.
This coin commemorates the 20th aniversary of defeating german fascism : 1945 + 20 = 1965
QUOTE(Trantor_3 @ Aug 7 2006, 05:26 PM)
There's some real nice stuff in there
However, there's a mis-print on one of the coin holders.
It's a russian 1 rouble, with a statue on it. I'm talking about this coin:
The coin holder says 1988, but the coin is actually from 1965. Neither the obverse and reverse hold a date, but it's present in the edge lettering.
This coin commemorates the 20th aniversary of defeating german fascism : 1945 + 20 = 1965
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However, there's a mis-print on one of the coin holders.
It's a russian 1 rouble, with a statue on it. I'm talking about this coin:
The coin holder says 1988, but the coin is actually from 1965. Neither the obverse and reverse hold a date, but it's present in the edge lettering.
This coin commemorates the 20th aniversary of defeating german fascism : 1945 + 20 = 1965
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I think it is the restrike date. These things were sold by Mezhnumizmatika back in the late 80's and early 90's and were officially restruck by Goznak. The restrike date is in the edge of the coin.
Actually the year 1988 is right, as that is a restrike. In fact around the rims, the legend is, "9 May 1965 * 1988 . N" where the letter N stands for novodel. Original proofs minted in 1965 are quite scarce if I am not mistaken and would have cost several times more.
And yes, Dave is right about the Mezhnumizmatika, and in fact it was a joint between the Goznak mint and some German company.
And yes, Dave is right about the Mezhnumizmatika, and in fact it was a joint between the Goznak mint and some German company.
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