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Use more light - that's what I would recommand.

It may not be very advisable - sold a couple of coins to Russia and was notified by the buyer that they haven't arrived yet after a month. Here's why: http://themoscownews.com/russia/20130409/191426435/Postal-Service-cries-for-help-as-packages-pile-up.html

This was one heck of a challenge. Forked out enough money and I don't really want to remember how much this costed me. Not into varieties so I've left them out. The last two coins that I needed was 1927 and 1969 5 kopek, which is interesting as they are semi key dates. The toughest 5 kopek coins are 1934, 1933, 1935 (old type), 1927, 1970, 1971 and 1990 M. Some key dates are in low grade - figured that if I buy the low grades first, I can always upgrade them later. Still struggle to find better ones. Here are the two coins that I couldn't fit in my virtual coin album design. The rest of the coins can be seen here: http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/russia_5k_24_pg1_small.jpg http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/russia_5k_61_pg1_small.jpg I don't think I can duplicate this set - a rather difficult set. Now to complete the rest of the other Soviet coins, perhaps 50 kopek. I think I'm missing just one coin for this and it's NOT a key date either. You'll be surprised to find out a lot of Soviet coins from 1965 - 1975 are getting difficult to find all of a sudden despite what the catalog value says.

The high relief Lenin medal is appearently made in Hungary as shown here: With regards to the first medal, a quick search on google with the die engraver "A. Kaasik" comes up with Estonian links. Quite interesting.

Hello one-kuna, here's a better picture from numista.com http://en.numista.com/catalogue/photos/inde/g22.jpg I am sure you can see the "MMD" mintmark under the year 2000.

Tajikistan has released two new coins in 2013 dated 2011. 1 diram is worth just 0.2 cents so I don't know why bother releasing them. Whether there is a purpose in releasing these coins or not, we'll put that aside.

Supposedly a coin that was planned to be issued in 1994, high levels of inflation didn't see this coin issued for circulation. Saw this coin for sale a long time ago and missed my chance in getting it back then. Finally saw it for sale and didn't hesitate to get it. I don't know how to describe the design but it looks like it was modelled from the old Soviet 20 kopek. I'm not sure if there were any other denominations planned for issue.

Have been getting these as a lot of Russian coins that I want are getting too expensive. A lot of these are from Soviet era. Most of them are reasonably priced. Maybe these may interest you?

Thought you might be interested in foreign coins struck by Moscow mint and St. Petersburg mint. You can see their distinct mintmark clearly. Moscow - India 2000 5 ruble St Petersburg - earlier coinage of Tajikistan Not sure if these mints have minted more coins for other countries.

Gut feel is that it's issued in 1992 by Leningrad Mint (now St. Petersburg mint) to commemorate the founding of St. Petersburg.

actelios - can't remember what I paid but I know I pay silly money for these. I can't have enough of these! extent4cell - general rule of thumb is one shouldn't clean coins unless it's absoulutely necessary, i.e. PVC damage. I'll like to preserve coins where possible and this has been treated with acetone. Here's a couple more pics of the coin http://gxseries.com/dump/IMGP2480.JPG http://gxseries.com/dump/IMGP2490.JPG Some more of the same type: Not complaining about this coin as I paid a mere dollar for it.

Bought a couple of interesting cancelled Egyptian coins They are both magnetic. I don't know why they are cancelled - they are the most recent series and should be legal tender.

What's the year for this particular coin? There is a 45 degrees rotation as shown.

Bought a bunch lot of low grade Japanese Meiji era coins and was going through duplicates. Nearly missed this but realized they looked different. Couldn't pinpoint it at first but when I looked at them hard enough, I noticed that the scales looked different. For the previous year Meiji 15 (1882), the scales looked very detailed. In Meiji 16, it seems that there was a transition and less details were put in the scales. This was reflected in the next year. I checked the JNDA catalog and didn't find a variety for this year. If you happen to have this particular coin, can you please let me know what kind of variety you have? Curious to find out which is less common.

I wasn't aware of this until a friend from Kazakhstan mentioned about this variety. If you look at the statue, there's a difference with and without hand. Not sure which is less common but it's interesting to note this difference.

That's it, here are some of the better ones: Japan: Korea: Argentina: Sri Lanka: Belgium Russia

My advice is, when there's $ involved, it becomes ugly very very quickly.

Taiwan 1960 1 yuan.

Wow - I'm impressed as well as awed over some of the high quality fakes in the gallery. At the same time, have to thank everyone who contributed - I didn't have much to add.

Rnsdb, there has been a significant amount of complains with regards to your response. I suggest you either you realize that this forum is not a punching bag for your ideas or you are more than welcome to find other places. All posts with regards to "wiki related" with little or no numismatics materials will be removed promptly and further actions will be taken if necessary.

Just a reminder that this is a numismatic forum, not a IT related forum. I have a rough idea of what is going on but it does not seem to be user friendly for the general public regardless of whether we require an open mind or not.

There's really some eye opening lessons that I see there - thanks to everyone who contributed! I've put in a few of mine - not a lot but it's from my personal collection. Bought them when I first started into Russian numismatics which is almost good 10 years ago. Was very green back then - had some decent luck when I bought some of the star highlights in my collection. Time really flies... I think it's not too difficult switch the obverse and reverse around - certain everyone's got different opinions of what obverse and reverse of various coins would be. Also noticed that a 1834 10 kopek is accidently dated 1734 otherwise it's all sweet.

Spent a whole afternoon doing some number games as I found an interesting reference. So far from what I know, there isn't any reference that provide mintage of Manchukuo coins. However this reference has shown a different perspective which provides figures of how much money was issued every year. From this, I've tried to deduce mintage figures which somewhat looks right. Here's what I've thought: http://gxseries.com/...kuo_mintage.htm Couple of highlights that I've added - these two are a lot tougher than what many would think: 1943 5 fen - was a lucky win. Missed it three times in a row and all of them went past the 50 dollar mark. 1942 1 fen - despite the low grade, I struggled to find one in any condition for a long time. Makes me wonder if this is underrated. I've also compiled what I have and started to get rid of the lower grade coins from my collection. This looks like it's getting in place. Here's one with everything compiled together: http://gxseries.com/...a/manchukuo.htm Another one is an album version: http://gxseries.com/.../manchukuo1.htm Getting close to complete this but the rest of the coins are key dates - hard to find in any condition to start off with. Please feel free to add what you think about my method of speculating mintage - open to critism.

I like the visual friendly-ness of the site. Will be uploading some of my fakes when I get around to this weekend.

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.