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I like overstrike coins. Got most of the common overstruck coins except for the silver and gold. You can never get bored with overstruck coins as they all look different

I might have surprise coming up - still waiting for them to appear in the mail.

Link as follows:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/latest/a/23045138/compo-for-inflated-coin-valuation/

Bear in mind that a holey dollar is quite rare even in Australia. That said, if you have enough money to buy a house, I would think twice in bombing that much on a single coin.

Your opinion? Implications for dealers making "promises"?

You have been hunting some scarce coins and all of a sudden you have sellers offering you key date coins. Not just one or two or three but FOUR. Bear in mind that these are coins that I have been hunting for more than five years easily and they rarely pop up in auctions. One of them turns out to be a coin that I have been hunting for more than ten years!

I might be able to afford a couple but it's a killer to see that many key coins offloaded at once when hunting one is trying to look for hen's teeth.

Now what would you do? Start to offload all your duplicates? I'm quite lost for words.

Scottishmoney - I think everyone will be related in this case. Everyone's got traces of metals in their blood.

Many thanks everyone!

Scottishmoney - not too sure how I am related to a 10 kopek but at least I am remembered in one way

Just in case you wondered if I disappeared off the face of the world - yes I did, but just for a short period of time Found myself a job and I feel extremely lucky. Did sell off some of the duplicates and that did help a bit.

I've been looking through at some listings on ebay and I admit that I'm surprised over the amount of copies and "pattern" coins listed in particular by Russian sellers. While the Soviet pattern coins are copies, I admit that some of them look quite good if not deceptive. Even the Barcelona Olympic coins as well as some of the tougher bi-metal coins such as Chechen copies are available! I personally though that modern circulating coins cannot be copied however I don't know anything about Russia on her stance of counterfeit / copy coins.

Guess that's all for now. Will be uploading some of the hundred of coins that I never got around to as well as working on my homepage.

What about the copper set squirrel?

Bob, I think you are being a bit harsh here to dismiss it is a fantasy coin immediately.

I suspect it could be this:

Not the best photos but you get the idea. Still worth at least an ounce of silver if this is the case.

The probability of it being genuine is probably worse than you winning jackpot every day. Welcome to coinpeople by the way.

I think the only coin that I really would like at the moment is a circulated platinum 3 ruble coin. That's a few years down the road. Other regional coins such as Armavir, Tannu Tuva, Spitzbergen and Georgian coins do interest me - I just seem to have a love and hate relationship with those particular type of coins. I should offload my entire collection and see how that sparks interest - haven't seen a few coins on the market for a while.

Thought I'll compile what I have.

In the early years of Turkmenistan after it's independence from the Soviet Union, President Saparmurat Niyazov ruled Turkmenistan for 15 years. Featured on the reverse of the first series coinage (mandated by law) - this person is at best described as a cult. More can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurad_Niyazov

Turkmenistan had also experienced high inflation rate which is brought under control in 2009. While many coins are struck in plated steel, this is an interesting and cheap set to assemble. What I found interesting is that there is a key emphasis on geometric designs which is evident on all coins.

Hope you enjoy the view:

http://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/turkmenistan_type_set

It is actually in a reasonably good condition. Who knows - maybe the buyer thought that he could remove the verdigris.

I struggle to see why it is proof. A fair number of the early Soviet silver coins were actually struck with strong details. Proof coins are rather uncommon to scarce.

I would have to politely disagree with the vinegar solution - it strips the patina very quickly.

Best to leave it to the experts especially if you are dealing with expensive coins.

What variety is this by any chance extant4cell? I know it's not the best photo but it's a photo that I took probably 7 years ago. Think this is the only 1730 denga that I have.

Please buy a catalog or at least look up examples of sold Ivan III rubles at various auction house - this is clearly not genuine!

Decided to compile what I had and created this Uzbekistan digital album. I believe Uzbekistan's 1 tiyin coin is voted to be the world's most worthless coin in circulation recently. I highly doubt if it's used in daily commence.

A rather challenging set if you decide to collect by varieties otherwise if this is just a plain type set, it would have been easily completed. 1994 20 tiyin with the mintmark PM is the key of this series. For those who do not know, Pobjoy mint struck some of Uzbekistan's coins which have the mintmark PM. Some coins struck in between 1997 - 1999 especially 1998 are not common for some reason.

Here's an example:

I present you the album version:

http://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/uzbekistan_variety_type_album'>http://issuu.com/gxseries/docs/uzbekistan_variety_type_album

For other type sets, please feel free to view them here:

http://issuu.com/gxseries/docs

I will have to disagree and side with Art. It just alienates Russian numismatics from other users and I don't believe this is the spirit of this forum, unless this part of the forum is going to be spun off. If a seller has a bunch lot of coins to sell and some Russian coins are in the lot, it just makes it difficult to put it under one list.

Very nice for 30 dollars.

The ones that I can think of is these three at 1 dollar each. They were in a lot and I averaged the price after getting rid of the unwanted / duplicate coins.

Yes, I know they are low grade but I don't think I will be able to upgrade them any day. 1795/88 MM 1 kopek, 1798 1/4 ruble and 1973 15 kopek. I do have to rephotograph some of my coins. 1795 MM 2 kopek is also another example that I will not be able to upgrade. That could have been a bargain as well but I can't quite remember what I paid.

Guys, I don't think BKB meant it in a negative way. I believe this forum here should hold it's head high for allowing English speaking members to discuss Russian numismatics. Fair enough, you have other Russian numismatic forums such as staraya moneta, Samara etc but they are not English user friendly.

My apologies for my post earlier but there is a reason why I have been less active here.

I'm going the very opposite direction - lost my job and I'm facing the prospect of selling what I have. This includes some of the rarer coins that you might have seen me discussing and unfortunately everything is on the table. I guess the good side is, what I have stashed are worth something even though they may not be the best condition.

On the positive side, this is one coin that was mixed in a pile of Soviet coin lot that came in a while ago.

Some may realize this is a tough key semi key date and rarity wise is exceeded only by 1971, 1972 15 kopek and 1942, 1970 being the key date of the 15 kopek set (except 1958).

This is probably one of the last few discussion related to Russian numismatics coming from me for a while. Can't live on coins and I had the pleasure of holding onto some scarce coins.

Thanks everyone. Thedeadpoint - I don't know how I can simplify the process so that it comes down to a stage of uploading your own photos and it automatically updates an album.

I remember seeing a seller attempting to sell these coins at 150 dollars in total on ebay - had to write them a message to tell them that it's not genuine. If you happen to buy them at this price, please return it immediately.

They are all replicas and you should not be paying more than a dollar each.

For some reason I missed this link and thought I'll share it - I really like it

https://www.youtube.com/user/BankofRussia/videos

All videos are unfortunately in Russian and this is no English subtitles. Wished I knew Russian fluently. However there are some good historical videos in them, i.e. old dies kept in St. Petersburg mint, workers in mint and old WWII video footages.

I personally like this video:

Around 3:14 mark