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Wow, really nice buys there Burks.

Just one thing in case people are wondering about: That word that just means "Chinese" in traditional Chinese writing format. This as well: Probably the simplified version of "fu", which means prosperity.

I can see why others wouldn't dare to do such jobs - they must be very good with maths and not too many people would play around with small decimal figures on large sums. If I am not mistaken, isn't the signature of Goh Chok Tong on the current 2 dollar polymer note?

Indeed, I can agree. I have changed to and from USD back in Singapore while I was there. I was very adamant about such notes after the bad experience in Russia. Fortunately, the money changers in Singapore are very trustworthy.

Something that I had to add, but US 100 dollar bills in the past terribly lagged behind some major world currencies in terms of security. At times I get paranoid when people doubt the authencity of such money. Just recently, my mom found a 1974 old and tattered 100 dollar bill that she got a long time ago. I don't even know if that is genuine or not, nor what to do with it. Perhaps it is time to switch over to polymer?

That's quite common actually overseas. From my experience of what I hae seen I swear I have seen at least 40% that are in such conditions. I learned my lesson that such notes should not be used in Russia, as they love to reject such notes, leaving me with not too much of an option.

WOW. I saw that coin in a local coin store and I must admit it is an impressive coin, perhaps only to match one Slovakian commemorative coin that I have in mind. Congradulations!

Wow, I don't believe it's too common. Perhaps an Euro banknote collector can tell you more about it.

Does this explain why Romanian gold coins are so expensive? http://www.coinvault.com/k-z.htm Pretty expensive but nice!

We have more than 150 coinpeeps in here - perhaps we can all hoard it for ourselves

Only 150 pieces?! Damn mint frauds

This is one of the oldest commemorative ruble minted in Russia that I have: Mintage of just 15,000 Old commemoratives that were minted in Russia before 1917 often have a mintage less than 300,000 except for the Nicholai II 300th Anniversary of Romanovs, with mintage of 1.5 million.

Will pm you over it.

Will do asap!!!

You know, the post service is a lot better than here. They don't even deliver a SINGLE parcel probably except if you are disabled. And you have to show ID from time to time even though you got the slip... etc... I.e. the postman just delivers papers and slips... P.S. parcels as in anything that's not in envelope format is considered parcel and hence, collect it yourself... bleh...

*cough* Are you sure Doc didn't get those coins you put in?

The reverse is tempting me to etch some graffiti on it... afterall what's the point of a wide space there

A crappy ruble: Most likely minted in 1793. Crappy but I didn't pay much for it.

wow you are rich

Never knew...

First you need a die, whatever it could be. Even a *cough* counterfeit will do. (img shown at bottom) <- Next you borrow that hammer off my avatar to strike planchets and volia! A nice "coin" there! Of course, the sickle is there for you to behead yourself if you are planning to counterfeit some coins --- Ok, leaving the joke part aside, I am sure there are a fair bit of sites that does give details of how coins / medals are made. Even the US mint do give a general idea of how coins are made. http://www.usmint.gov/faqs/circulating_coi...fm?action=coins

Speaking of prices going insane - just within this post that only existed for a few months... here is another similar coin that's slamming around 900USD... I don't know what this will end up to... Link

Banivechi just sent me a great Russian kopek even though I am sure he would be happy to keep it - I have to thank him for his great generocity!!! Also, he included some great Romanian coins that was issued very recently. He is just great!!!

Silly me, I forgot the links to the flash video Clip 1: overstriked Coins infomation http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/6429/overstrikev28id.swf Clip 2: Specifications of this overstriked 5k/10k coin http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/2618/10kopeckspecs2tr.swf >> Note: You can ZOOM IN, by right click, or you can try various other functions too. There is a reason why these clips are ridiciously big!!!

Yup. Unless you want to cancel it