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Burks, are you sure these are minted in silver? These were minted in ni-cupro and were widely circulated here. (or they might be if they are indeed the silver edition) 1998 Australia 50 Cent - George Bass/Matthew Flinders (Four of them) - About 0.5oz silver each

Believe it or not, I can even make something similar with my colour printer! No punt intended. Sorry but if that's the quality of a 100,000USD and it's supposed to be PRIVATE, no reason why it should be shoddy at all.

Geez, pretty harsh are you Oldman? That's what reference books are there for

Just in case one is wondering how it looks like, here is one from my collection: Bad photography there.

Not too sure but your link doesn't seem to be working at the moment.

Holy! Those are some neat bills you got there! Thanks for showing.

Nice one bobh. Definately very nice.

Nice one Vfox. If you noticed Vfox, the so called 10,000 rubles aren't really rubles but instead called "billets" or a ridicious name like "tokens". There was a time when the Soviet Union broke up and the rubles were very unstable, forcing people to buy either US dollars which is pretty much illegal but it happened or a scammer, (can't remember his name) just advertised that his "stocks" are worth a lot. Obviously people bought his story, bought plenty of his paper money and tada. It crashed one day.

That's funny - a few people have Hungarian Denar. This is mine: 1516 Hungarian Denar. Notice there is a rotation error here.

Nice one Bobh. I am guessing the 50 kopek is the most expensive one out of there?

see, you know collecting both the ship and bird series would be more than impossible as the highest denomination is 10,000SGD!!!

You got very good taste there Bobh. I should assemble a set of Nicholai II gold coins one day when finance permits. As for the modern Russian coins, if you noticed, I am extremely stubborn when it comes down to it - if there's no certificate and box, out they go from my mind! But at the same time, I paid a fair amount more and nowadays you rarely see them on ebay. Are modern Russian mint sets pretty scarce or what? I'll ask in the forum.

Bobh - you did wipe out their Russian coin hoard didn't you? Nevertheless, nice looking coins!

East India Company? I have a feeling that it might be quite common. Here is an example that I found on the net except it's half anna: http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/philnum/philnum.htm Do you happen to have pictures of them?

That is shockingly fast Trantor! I don't remember getting their coins that fast!

Grivna, you know I have seen similar samples on sale YEARS ago when I first started on ebay almost 4 years. I was foolish NOT to buy them and now I don't remember what they are like I did remember however that they had the word "МУЛЯЖ" and wondered what they meant until I searched it up. Now I painfully regret the decision when I saw probably at least 3 unique samples on ebay years ago, but they were all silver patterns, not like this example I have. Perhaps it is a pattern ruble, but right now I'm puzzled over why it has not been catalogued yet. I should get a Krause (suprising that I haven't got one up to now). I am guessing that the Mints must have changed their altitude somewhere during the years that the denomination is not to be engraved and replace it with the word "model". Maybe in 1995? 1997? Who is the Russian coin expert when it comes down to this? Should I send it to the PCGS? NGC? Banivechi, if I am not wrong, there are no Spitzbergen set minted in 1992. The only pattern in that particular year that I can think of by Leningrad mint are the coins minted for Armenia, in both nickel-cupro and brass. Still affordable but I haven't bothered to get any of them yet... and I believe I will regret it painfully one day...

It's not only Romania that's getting expensive. Other countries too that I noticed, are Poland, Korea, and probably Australia have seen their coin prices going to some ridicious prices that I have never seen before. Vietnam and Brazil seems to be on the list next, which I guess, a list of developing countries are usually easily to quality for "super fast" price increase... of course, Russia is a developing nation at the moment... too much natural resources coming out from that country

Time for a mass scale novodel production

I can understand why you decided to turn to the Soviet coins "temporarily". Tsarist coins have been getting pricier these years and even I am feeling the crunch. And I have even lowered my expectations, down to damaged coins...

WAIT, you actually managed to find a Borodino set? Mine is an awful cracked set and I have to replace it eventually. I even forgot when I bought it Speaking about the Moscow Olympics set, the greatest news about it was that, I bought it at 2USD. Yes, why so cheap? That's because the dealer broke the set apart, and sold the box and the coins seperately. I only managed to find one coin out of the 6 sadly But fortunately... I got the box too... Now I'm just looking for the set + certificate... It's just too difficult to focus on the last three hundred years of Russian coinages By any chance did that same bug picked out other relatively scarce Soviet coin sets?

I wasn't keeping myself in touch with the Soviet commemorative coins, but Tane, did you have a hard time looking for this set? Ironically I actually bought this set in Moscow. I haven't seen similar set for awfully long period of time.

Congradulations Tane! The 5 ruble in proof is actually a stunner as well as it's massive size. I don't think there were too many 5 rubles that were minted in such size.

Ah, found it at Basok. I'll try emailing him and pick up a copy when I do have the chance. Thanks for the scan Grivna Soviet trial coins are actually a lot easier to find, but when it comes to modern Russian coins >1991, I haven't heard of any at the moment.

Grivna, would there be any chance that the Rylov/Sobolin catalog mention any pattern coins? As well as, would you happen to know where I can pick a copy?

Here are two more larger images of the same coin: There is one more thing that I remembered, that is, Moscow mint is usually responsible for minting MOST of the Russian gold coins since the Soviet era. Grivna, you wouldn't happen to have any infomation about this in your amazing numismatic literature would you?