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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.

They are not rare - just doesn't appear out in the Western world. Note that the issue year of 1997 - this is when the first Russian financial crisis occured. A lot of commemorative coins from 1997 - 2000 ish are now commanding a higher premium. Might suspect some coins were not sold to public and melted down. Can't blame anyone for this as if you can't sell them, they are only good for scrap metal.

Here's some listings on a Russian auction site.

http://molotok.ru/listing.php/search?string=%D0%9F%D0%9E%D0%9B%D0%AF%D0%A0%D0%9D%D0%AB%D0%99+%D0%9C%D0%95%D0%94%D0%92%D0%95%D0%94%D0%AC&category=78259&order=pd&change_view=1

So when is this medal struck? I see three different years on it - 1828 which I presume is the year it's commemorating, the engraver's name which is dated 1837 under the eagle and 1839 - I suppose the dies were made in different years?

Looks like a random fantasy to be honest. Chinese coins are just hideous when it comes to counterfeits - make sure you buy a catalog first before you start.

Won this medal as it was a bargain:

Don't have a lot of idea what this medal is.

Bought this coin - think this shows the overdate quite clearly.

I'll see if I can get those verdigris removed.

Bought a low grade coin - do you think it's EM mintmark?

They do appear on ebay once in a while but the asking and buying price is quite high.

See this link for examples: http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=bear&_sop=1&_osacat=32476&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR8.TRC0&_nkw=bear+gold&_sacat=32476

Been veering off my usual hunt as some of the coins that I've been looking out for are getting a bit too expensive.

First up is Argentina 2 centavos. I like the color of it

Second is Uzbekistan 1999 10 som. Seems to be unusually difficult coin to find. Think Uzbekistan's 1 som has been voted to be the world's most worthless circulating coin.

Third is an interesting pattern coin from Poland.

Lastly a set of tokens from Tatarstan. These come in three, one bread token and two petroleum tokens, struck in copper and nickel-copper.

Hope you find them interesting. I'm sure you have recently accquired some awesome coins too - please feel free to show them!

I usually spot more Indian error coins instead of Malaysian ones. Might want to give ebay a check.

Goetzdude will buy the entire HA's inventory!!! WOW @ the offering. Did a museum just went bankrupt???

I've been interested in numismatics, mints that have some bragging rights for instance world's largest gold coin, world's first platinum circulating coin, world's first bi-metal, tri-metal etc.

Here's some of my thoughts:

World's largest gold coin record trend: http://lunaticg.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/worlds-biggest-gold-coin.html

World's first platinum coin was officially struck for circulation - Russia 1828 3 ruble

World's first tantalum (bimetal + silver) coin - Kazakhstan 2006 500 tenge

World's first antimony coin - China 1931 Kweichow 10 cash

World's first palladium coin - Sierra Leone 1966, set of 3 coins

World's first titanium coin - Gibraltar 1999 5 pounds

And so on. List can also be the world's most expensive coin of it's catagory. Would like to see interesting records.

I'm not going to complain squirrel - have been looking for one for years and I'm not fazed about conditions as long as the price is right. I don't know what is right these days but I know I will not see another one any time soon for a price that I am happy with.

Filler coin for now:

Can't complain as I don't see one floating around too often other than in auction house catalogs but they often end up to be too steep for me.

I think it's just double struck from EM.

Won the lot of them a while ago and forgot about them completely until I was doing a bit of clean up.

Some reckon that this is easy but I beg to differ. While the catalog values for each coin may not be very high, some years in particular from 1965 to 1973 are a lot tougher than what many think. You might be able to find many Soviet coins in junk coin lot including 50 kopek and some commemorative rubles but I have rarely seen hoards of rubles in such coin lot.

These days when I look at ebay, prices for a lot of the common XF+ ruble coins (1980s onwards) are commanding at least 5-10 dollars. Coins from the 60s to 70s are priced insane - some are asking for 30 - 50 dollars if not more.

I reckon it's A LOT easier to complete an entire set of Soviet commemorative coin set (excluding the Barcelona commemorative coins) instead of this non-commemorative ruble coins. As of why, I have no idea.

Here's a couple of photos:

With this, I have completed every single Soviet ruble coin that has been released excluding varieties. Maybe you have some of these in your collection?

I have been slacking off on my site as well as my collection as work has been hectic as usual.

Here's three different links:

Silver type set 1802 - 1917: http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/ag_group_1802_1917.htm

Copper type set 1700 - 1801: http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/cu_group_1700_1801.htm

Copper type set 1802 - 1917: http://gxseries.com/numis/rus_imperial/cu_group_1802_1917.htm

Didn't do a type set from 1700 - 1801 becaue it's likely to be expensive. Might be a good idea to keep track of what I have in my collection though.

Latest addition to this set would be this tiny coin:

Polushka or 1/4 kopek. They are unusually difficult to find.

Might start getting a bit serious on some of the easier coins to fill in the holes.

Show us some of your awesome Imperial Russian coins.

Ok I'm stumped - are there any rare variety or what in them?

http://www.ebay.com/...=item3380bf53fe