I have been cleaning out and slowly cataloguing what I have. Good grief, I still haven't bothered to catalogue the entire corroded copper hoard due to my laziness. That mysterious 1795/88 MM 1 kopek has been grabbing quite a lot of my time.

This perhaps is one of the more uncommon coins that you might find in a pile of Russian coins. I'm sure in Russia it might be very very common but I find it a bit tougher than most coins.

Here is the image of the 1995 50 ruble coin that I am talking about:


At first glance, common sense will tell you that I need to wear the right lens or too drunk.

But look at the edge, this is another different matter as you can see on the right:



This is actually a plated 50 ruble coin - appearently the only denomination struck in 1995. I'm not too sure why but perhaps the other coins have no obvious tell sign whereas this coin is struck on a cheaper planchet as it's plated steel. As you know, steel is quite cheap compared to Nicupro.

Now I need to find the 1995 LMD 50 rubles. Perhaps that's going to be a challenge. Any of you guys collect the short period of the circulated modern Russian coins? (1992,3) They were only struck for 2 (or rather 3) years but that can be quite a challenge.

Yup!

That one is minted 1995 - Youre right...

Moscow one - is a really common - but marked LMD steel one - even in Russia cost a serious money - about 5-6 USD

IMHO due to low mintage and very short circulation time.

Basilio, I am just wondering, what is a good site for such coins? I have checked out this site "Samara Numismatics" and the address is: http://coins.lave.ru/pogodovka1991/ I guess it may be because he's based in St. Petersburg and he's got quite a fair bit of coins. The only thing I found much challenging is the different alloys used in 1993 as well as I don't have any example of 1993 20 rubles which seems to be a real challenge.

Also, why is there only this particular coin struck in 1995 but not other denominations? Why not make new dies in 1995? I know the economic situation in Russia wasn't too good but was there a need to strike coin with the old year?

I am still slowly updating what I have which can be seen here (quite big unfortunately) http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/1992_2007.htm

Look at this site - http://arcamax.ru/price_reg92.htm

Information almost coerrect.. for a few months ago..

I"m not sure about a date - sleet 50 rubles came into circulation actually in 1995 - thats why ( IMHO) it is called 95...

gxseries

great site, thanks for sharing!

we are somewhat lucky to have much lower prices here in the West...

To me the LMD seems to be more common. I have not a singe MMD, but have had and still have more than one LMD's. Lucky?

Is it magnetic one?

Yes it is.

You are very lucky man
Definitely
As Basilio said even in Russia such coin is not pretty common, I think price for the coin will grow up in future

You can try this - http://coins2001.narod.ru/images/91/50r.htm

Nice one Tane, I'm still looking for an example of it. I'm still updating my page on modern Russian coins - I have been quite lazy