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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.

gxseries, silver, Group 3 1701-1800, Russia 1760 5 kopek, gxseries Russia 1760 5 kopek gxseries, silver, Group 3 1701-1800, Russia 1799 1 ruble, gxseries Russia 1799 1 ruble gxseries, silver, Group 4 1801-1900, Japan 1871 20 sen, gxseries Japan 1871 20 sen gxseries, silver, Group 4 1801-1900, Japan 1896 1 yen, Osaka mint countermark, gxseries Japan 1896 1 yen, Osaka mint countermark gxseries, silver, Group 6, NCLT, Japan 2003 1000 yen, commemorating 5th Asian winter games, gxseries Japan 2003 1000 yen gxseries, silver, Group 6, NCLT, Russia 1993 ballerina 25 rubles, gxseries Russia 1993 ballerina 25 rubles gxseries, silver, Group 6, NCLT, Russia 1994 ballerina 25 rubles, gxseries Russia 1994 ballerina 25 rubles

Knew this coin is going to stir something.

gxseries, copper, Group 3 1701-1800, Russia 1731 denga, gxseries Russia 1731 denga gxseries, copper, Group 4 1801-1900, Russia 1828 2 kopek, gxseries Russia 1828 2 kopek gxseries, copper, Group 4 1801-1900, Russia 1863/1 5 kopek, gxseries Russia 1863/1 5 kopek gxseries, copper, Group 4 1801-1900, Russia 1874 1 sen, gxseries Japan 1874 1 sen gxseries, copper, Group 5 1901-present, Korea 1909 1 chon, gxseries Korea 1909 1 chon gxseries, copper, Group 5 1901-present, Japan 1935 1 sen, gxseries Japan 1935 1 sen gxseries, copper, Group 5 1901-present, China 1912 10 cash, gxseries China 1912 10 cash

gxseries, Bimetallic, Group 5 1901-Present, Russia 2007 10 rubles commemorating Bashkortostan, gxseries Russia 2007 10 rubles commemorating Bashkortostan gxseries, Bimetallic, Group 5 1901-Present, Russia 2007 10 rubles commemorating Arkangelsk region, gxseries Russia 2007 10 rubles commemorating Arkangelsk region gxseries, Bimetallic, Group 5 1901-Present, Japan 2010 500 yen commemorating Fukui Prefecture, gxseries Japan 2010 500 yen commemorating Fukui Prefecture gxseries, Bimetallic, Group 6 NCLT, Kazakhstan 2006 500 tenge - silver and tantalum bimetal, gxseries Kazakhstan 2006 500 tenge

gxseries, Base Metals, Group 4 1801-Present, Korea 1893 1/4 yang, gxseries Korea 1893 1/4 yang gxseries, Base Metals, Group 5 1901-Present, Japan 1939 10 sen gxseries Japan 1939 10 sen gxseries, Base Metals, Group 5 1901-Present, China Manchukuo 1940 1 sen gxseries China Manchukuo 1940 1 sen gxseries, Base Metals, Group 5 1901-Present, Korea 1905 5 chon gxseries Korea 1905 5 chon gxseries, Base Metals, Group 6 NCLT, China 1986 1 yuan commemorating year of peace gxseries China 1986 1 yuan - Year of Peace gxseries, Base Metals, Group 8 Special coins, China Guizhou Province 1931 antimony 10 cash gxseries China Guizhou Province 1931 antimony 10 cash

gxseries, Non-metallic, Group 5, 1901-Present, China Manchukuo 5 fen (red fiber), gxseries China Manchukuo 1945 5 fen (red fiber) gxseries, Non-metallic, Group 5, 1901-Present, Japan 1945 1 sen (porcelain), gxseries Japan 1945 1 sen (porcelain)

gxseries, Other Precious Metals, Group 6, Russia 1993 Palladium 5 ruble gxseries Russia 1993 palladium 5 ruble gxseries, Other Precious Metals, Group 6, Russsia 1978 Platinum 150 ruble gxseries Russia 1978 platinum 150 ruble

Andrei, would you like more coin photos examples? 1929 Singapore also has a few commemorative coins that uses the sexagenary cycle: Main reason being that Singapore is a country that has a lot of Chinese people that emigrated a long time ago. Also I believe the gold coin is not genuine.

I'm never a fan of gold for whatever reason it is. Bought a 1900 5 ruble gold coin and sold it within a week for a mere 100USD or something like that. Still don't regret it. Guess the best is to lower your expectation to 5 ruble gold coin as they are more plentiful and cheaper. Thing is, I'm pretty sure most buyers are more than happy to hoard them at 400usd each in decent condition and resell them at a profit. Just the way supply and demand is.

Very nice overdate indeed. Congradulations!

BKB - I had my fair share of this ugly verdigris with Russian copper coins and I know too well what it's like. It's just unfortunate that the more you try to deal with it, it seems to leave ugly pockmarks. I wasted a couple of nice overstruck coins over that. I think it is more undesirable unless you are happy with that. The secret ingredient of olive oil is that it is slightly acidic and that is why it seems to be able to remove verdigris bit by bit. I would rather see a coin being conserved over a period of time instead of the patina stripped within mere seconds. Ruins value dramatically at the same time. Congradulation with the 1791 5 kopek. Looks like the mintmark is large size as well. I like it! I'm actually happy to experiment with verdicare and give it a go with what happens with 18th century Russian copper coins. I have no reply from anyone regarding about sending liquids overseas especially with the dumb scare over sending possible concoction of liquids becoming explosive.

Bob, try page 3. Again, I want to try this product but I have trouble getting it sent to Australia. It's not right for me to recommend a product that I personally haven't even tested but seeing the reviews, I thought I might as well give it a note. The most important thing is, it should remove a bit of verdigris BUT at the same time, NOT strip the patina which ruins everything.

Might want to give verdicare a go BKB. Please try it on cheaper coins first before trying on more expensive ones! http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=62434

If your camera can take more than 3MP, or at least 5MP and I'm not talking about mobile phones, you should be able to take reasonable photos. First set your white balance - it's important to pick a good "white color" as there's many shades of white. You must balance your color contrast under the light that you are going to shoot and it should be done before you take photos. Try to have a bright area so that you can lower your ISO - I usually use ISO 200 or 100 but you wouldn't want to shoot it ISO400 as it becomes blurry. You can then change your background to black or whatever but remember use the same background until you are happy to play around. It's ok to shoot thousands of photo until you get a better idea of how your camera works. It might help if you get a camera stand or if you can't, use the macro mode, 10 sec timer and have a steady hand. I usually use black background. Otherwise you can always adjust the color contrast using software later. What's important is to have steady hands. You can always adjust minor color difference later but you can't do much about blurry photos.

Try http://www.google.com/a/coinpeople.com

Very nice. Maybe I should get one too since I'm working in a mining industry

Andrei, were you the one who contacted me about the Korean dating in my site? http://www.gxseries.com/numis/asian_yr/asian_yr.htm Also, I recommend you to put some form of error message such as it's not possible to have dates of Meiji 100 which does not exist.

I'm not too sure what the drama is so please kindly explain to me in more details. When you mean by mint sets - are these specifically packed by the Royal Mint or it's just packed under "Cayman Island Monetary Authority" (somewhere along those words). This makes a huge difference. From what I understand, it's the monetary authorities that decide to award the contract to who can strike coins at the best price or best suited to their contracts. Best example is New Zealand. Contrary to what you may know, New Zealand mint is NOT government owned and DOES NOT strike regular coins for New Zealand. Instead, they have awarded several contracts to a few countries, namely South Africa, Australia, Canada and I think England is in it as well. Coming back to the point, if these coins are not packed by the Royal Mint, I don't see why all Cayman Island coins must be struck in the Royal Mint.

I reckon this guy's site is pretty awesome when it comes down to world's "dime": http://dewardt.net/

All coins would be unique... Inspired from this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70349851@N00/4018610098/ Just something random when I was looking at knives. I own a Damascus knife myself and was thinking if planchets were made in such patterns - might be pretty interesting. Damascus is used to describe the wavy grained pattern of two or more different metals mixed together and hand struck. Mokume gane is similar to it and more exotic metal is used. More readings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokume-gane Now why am I sensing some micro or African nations are going to strike coins in such patterns very soon...

one-kuna, if you have any genuine 1970 5 kopek which you claim is "not rare" for sale under 100 dollars, please let me know.

I bought this 5 kopek coin dated 1970 and this particular coin is a rather tough key date. I didn't think much about this coin but was happy as it is a tough key date that I was looking for a while. However when I glanced at the photo I took, there is a "scratch" on the number "0" which for one second I thought was a possibility of a re-engraved 6 to 0. It would honestly suck but I have no other examples of a 1970 or 1976 5 kopek to compare it with. What do you think?