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This has been an extremely tough challenge and perhaps the only coin that I'm missing is a rather pricey Chinese-Soviet crown coin. For now, I'm very happy with this http://www.gxseries.com/numis/china/china_province.htm Some highlights in this collection are here: Yunnan-Sichuan Chinese-Soviet (Jiangxi Soviet) Qingdao (German colony at one stage) Guizhou antimony coin - rather unusual material Here's one thing I would say - I am very lucky that I started this coin collection at the start of the mad Chinese price hike and some of these coins have easily tripled by now. Some are even unobtainable no matter how much I want to fork out for instance the antimony coin, which pretty much appears on auction markets once in a blue moon. Not a set that I can create a duplicate anytime or attempt another similar set...

Won this coin at a reasonable price. Still has reasonably clear text on the edge as well.

Got this coin recently. What year is this? Seems like 1755 but it could be 1756.

This is one heck of a set to complete and it took me a while to find the last coin, which is the 1910 20 chon. Despite the high mintage of 2 million, this does not necessarily reflect how often it appears on the market. All the other coins are perhaps 3-10 times easier to find despite similar or lower mintage number. Here are the pictures: 1905 1906 1907 (reduced size) 1908 1909 1910 Hope you enjoy.

Post mint damage?

The reality is, I have these coins myself but they aren't proof like or anything like that. It's the packaging that people are paying for. It's a bit of shame that I can't bid on yahoo japan otherwise there's too much bargains over there.

That's absolutely nuts! I bought one a long time ago for about 7 pounds 6 years ago. I suppose it's the casing that counts because I don't really think the coins are any special. I have to find it - hiding some where as usual.

Very nice coin. Thanks for showing.

My Russian is hopeless since it has been more than ten years I last used it... Can I assume that these were issued around 1990 because similar coins were issued in 1990 and 1991? Makes me wonder if these had the potential to be prototypes to be issued on precious metals.

Almost about the time I reckon since it's almost June. Got any awesome coins this year?

Has anyone been keeping track of the 1994 coins especially some 3 ruble commeorative coins and some bimetal coins? Not talking about any silver coins. Some prices shocked me!

There's something that I never understood of how Russia markets modern coins. I'm given the impression that coins whether it is 10 ruble commemorative coins or regular coins are not given a lot of attention as most countries would. For instance, it's not common to see yearly mint sets - you might see some floating around but they are in small number, amaybe around 50,000 at best. I actually quite like mint sets made during the Soviet era except for the toning but this is clearly unfortunate. There are some mint sets made specially for 10 ruble coins as well as other coins but these days, they command ridicious prices that I've never seen before. For instance the following: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item35bc0e4cc1&item=230788320449&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=Wk7m5nsRjb3oxzmmxGC2JR84AXE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item35bc0e537c&item=230788322172&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&rt=nc&si=Wk7m5nsRjb3oxzmmxGC2JR84AXE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc Who knows, maybe it's an excellent idea to see coin prices rise instead of stagnate

It's a rather scarce set by it's own right - last time I saw one going for sale with complete documentation was more than 7000 dollars. You definitely want to sell it as a lot instead of breaking it down or rethink if you really want the money because these don't float around in the market.

First coin looks normal. Second is a fantasy coin.

It probably was one of the first few types of medals the RAM produced as the previous coins were struck in the UK or other mints. This particular medal had to be struck after 1969 as the original 1966 50 cents coins were round and struck in silver. I can't remember if this is actually right off the top of my head but I think that sounds about right. You might find some hints here - some photos that I took in Canberra mint about 5 years ago. http://www.gxseries.com/gallery/?dir=Canberra%20Mint07

When I bought it about 3 years ago, it was around 50 dollars or so. I wouldn't expect the price to dramatically drop or rise so I guess it's ok to assume that's around the ball park value of the medal?

Photos would help. Would it happen to be like this?

I just received this recently: This is not something that I have seen before or even read before in any Korean coin catalog. This is a common 1/4 yang: I don't think it's a counterfeit. This coin weighs 4.67g. What are your opinions on this?

I vote Candidate's post to be one of the best posts for this week. Thanks for sharing such interesting information! I guess in today's value, a ruble would be worth about 10 - 15 dollars or so (approximately) - fair amount of money. So Candidate - one last question: When the 3 and 5 ruble commemorative coins started to appear in circulation in 1987, was that a big amount back then or that's signs of inflation and the ruble started to be worth less?

I'm trying to hunt down every single year of Soviet non-commemorative coins struck from 1961 to 1991. Turns out this is a lot harder than expected! Here's one example You can normally find 1-20 kopek in junk coin lot. 50k can be a bit tougher but still doable. However this does not apply to 1 ruble non-commemorative coins - I think it's a lot easier to find the entire set of commemorative coins. There was a seller on ebay that broke his set down and this was a rather recent event - probably two months ago or so and the entire set sold for probably more than 200-300 dollars. I couldn't even lay a finger on a single coin! I'm quite curious - I'm sure back in the 1960s - a ruble was worth a lot of money. What can you purchase with a ruble back then? I'm guessing the purchasing power of the ruble would have dropped later in the 80s and 90s but still, I have trouble finding coins from the later era as well.

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Knew this coin is going to stir something.

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