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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!

This one went at a hefty price!!! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&hash=item48453b27e6&item=310399150054&nma=true&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&rt=nc&si=Wk7m5nsRjb3oxzmmxGC2JR84AXE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc I have one somewhere in my collection that I'm preserving at the moment but wow @ that price.

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

Thought it's neat to illustrate it in a set like this: Pdf is 3.6mb big http://www.gxseries....puppet_type.pdf Hope you enjoy it.

The thing is, this is really crude and if you REALLY need explaination of why this is a counterfeit, please buy some low grade 5 kopek coins of this era before making any further comments. You can have one within 20-40 dollars. Even a second hand Uzdenikov catalog is within that price range. Highly recommanded. The original trial coin is supposedly a 1809 10 kopek overstruck over an earlier 5 kopek coin. Even looking at the original host coin, the details are just too crude. If this still doesn't convince you, please feel free to waste your money on it. Counterfeiters are out there to earn your money, but it will not be mine.

Any 10 kopek in that era in such nice condition is getting harder to find these days. Nice catch!

Nothing too fancinating but thought it would help to spice things up since it has been a bit quiet here. 1763 MM 2 kopek overstruck over offstruck 1762 4 kopek Think this is a recut date of 1766/5 MM 5 kopek Double struck and die clash - does make you feel dizzy Shifted my focus on Chinese coins so my Russian coin collection is a bit slackish. Created a pdf album type set for Soviet coins so if you haven't seen it yet, you can check it out here: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/soviet_album.pdf

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.

You need to show your coin. It is pointless to ask what you have using other people's photo. There are many different varities of this particular coin and the condition affects the price as well. Lastly because they are heavily countefeited, we assume that it's a fake unless you can provide some evidence it isn't the case. It's unfortunate that Chinese coins are heavily counterfeited.

Here's one example that I made - Soviet type set album. Looks quite good. http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/soviet_album.pdf

First coin looks normal. Second is a fantasy coin.

I'm getting to the stage where I'm no longer satisifed with catalogs that's out in the market. Perhaps I can create my own type set and then illustrate them and make them into a book / poster or some sort for instance the following: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/album/korea_1959_type1.htm http://www.gxseries.com/numis/koreatype/album/korea_early_type1.htm In a process of designing a few more albums and thought I'll share them over time. I've tried to illustrate them digitally but I guess it's always nice to have a hard copy. I've printed out of what I made and thought it would be good to laminate them and sell them off for material cost + shipping cost. Shouldn't be too expensive I reckon. Would be handy to have one to start out with so that you have a good idea of what an overall set would look like. (Perhaps Dansco would like some of my design? ) Anyone interested in hard copies of such? Got another random thought of making my own reference to Chinese coins as well as a rough guideline to Chinese counterfeit. If I print on standard A4 paper and laminate it, pretty sure that's cheaper than a lot of counterfeit coins out there in the market.

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?