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Most definately, it would be best if you read such numis. materials. That way, you can get what you wish to get. Here is a decent world coin gallery that I have seen so far: http://worldcoingallery.com/ Good luck

lol, I found this pretty funny. Auction link Who knows how old those holed coins are, or how valuable they are. Usually they aren't THAT expensive, but you will never know if one out of there are...

Not recommanded really. I mean, those companies have to make a profit somehow, and obviously, those profits have to come out from you. And you know what that means. (you pay more for the coins)

3, 6, 12 rubles were minted for an ultra short period of time, and are the only platinum coins minted for circulations. The metal used in these coins are claimed to be "pure" ural platinum coins, but it has been shown that this may not necessary be true, but in fact, some refined process has happened. I so far have no real materials to back up how the Russians managed to smelt platinum at a grand scale or how pure the platunum is. In fact, a research on platinum have shown that pure refinery of platinum was only seriously investigated in the late 1700's and early 1800's, leaving a lot of mysteries of how the refinery process was like. Nevertheless back to the topic, the first platinum coin was the 3 rubles coin minted in 1828, 6 rubles in 1829 and 12 rubles in 1830. (P.S. the mass of the 12 rubles platinum coin is over an ounce!!! Refer to the Russian coin articles data table). Such coins are very very very difficult to find. Although the 3 ruble coins are the easiest to find, which pops out on eBay auction sites approximately once every 2 months, a 6 ruble one will pop out on eBay like twice in one year and a 12 ruble one in approximately 2 years or even longer. Here is a 3 ruble coin on auction right now: Auction page Here is another one but on a Russian auction site: Auction site Example of a 12 ruble piece: 12 rubles Note that there indeed are PROOF platinum ruble coins minted; they are exceedingly scarce, and they are quite priceless... a 12 ruble proof coin went over 18,000USD on one of the auctions if I am not wrong... Hope you enjoyed it

Here is a link from Yale University, which suprising has a Russian coin collection. It is quite a great page, as it explains different denominations of why they are minted in general, and probably the best for a beginner. Yale University Russian Coins collection Enjoy

First appeared as a prototype in medals, and this appearently was the first successful commemorative coins after the 1834 and 1839 ruble failure release. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...8315263899&rd=1 Mintage is approximately 50,118. Proof versions exist for this coin, although exceedingly scarce.

Hahaha. You know the prices of Russian coins are getting quite horrible especially when auction items in Russia are actually MORE expensive than overseas auction sites, which means something is awfully wrong. Maybe Krause is getting a bit too slow in updating prices Afterall, this coin has an ultra scarce mintage of 26,500. I know at least 5 of this particular coins that are holed / damaged etc Who knows how many were melted down... I don't think the prices will cool down any time soon... Although it is getting TOO expensive that I can dream of...

Gold is an exceeding violiate "investment" material. It is a fact whether you want to deny it or not, that war and stablity that solely have to do a lot with the pricing of gold. And it is up to you to interpret if the war in Iraq is to end any sooner or later. But honestly, in my humble opinion, assuming that the war wouldn't last much longer, now is one of the difficult time to buy gold and stock it up. If you like, you can check this useful homepage, http://www.kitco.com and check under "charts & datas" and check all the historical chart. Of course, the pricing of gold is just a short 40 year history, but it has enough data to tell you how it is like.

Jesus, I have lots of small changes, but nothing close to 1million pennies. The most I have is like some 1000+ of copper "pennies" lying around, but omg lol

Undoubtly one of the most beautiful russian coins ever minted, here is another auction link to it, as I guess the pictures earlier on are ugly. http://molotok.ru/catalog/view_item.php?id_sell=7657555

I am way over that too... My top three would be Russian coins, *cough* All of them are way over 400USD mark I have to sell them one day when I get too broke. 1834 proof-like commemorative silver coin, 1978 olympics platinum proof coin + official box & paper 1991 palladium proof coin... + box & paper Well... *cough* you can probably imagine how pricy they are

now slightly unrelated but, this is something very funny, if not odd. From this url link: http://news.monstersandcritics.com/mediamo...ioned_in_Moscow "This is a counterfeit five-kopeck coin minted in late 18th century, made in Sweden. It was minted by the Swedish court for its soldiers on the eve of a war with Russia. The belligerent plans failed and copper coins circulated between Moscow and Siberia for a long time and now cost twenty times more than the authentic coins. The starting price is 4,500 dollars. Coin collectors say that its criminal background is not a reason to write it off." Now what do you think? 4,500USD for a fake Swedish copper coin that shouldn't cost more than 50USD is way too much and ridicious if a genuine Russian one doesn't cost any more than 50-100USD?

You mean this? http://www.goldbergcoins.com/

Here is the link of another Napolean defeat commemorative coin. Another auction

I guess it come down to the point when you know that it is a copy coin and you know what you are buying and at what "reasonable" price. I'm sure if a genuine coin is worth in terms of 10,000US+, you need a lot of securities at home or at a bank to store it. Of course, if I bought a coin, thinking that it's a genuine one and paid full price for it, I would honestly be angry.

Yes, I am getting the same message. I guess mySQL is having trouble handing too many posts at once. I mean, 11,000+ posts in one week is quite heavy, as in 1,300 posts+ in one day and you have untold number of guests and users checking the site out... pretty difficult.

OMG COOL @ 3x81. Sorry, got to bump it to $1.50

Honestly, I don't understand how much fuss the penny and the dollar coin be. Pennies are amazing annoying, but you know, I guess people still have fun collecting MILLIONS of them in barrels like some recent stories. Honestly, how much copper is just wasted to mint billions of such coins? If you have 100 of those pennies, sure it makes you seem like a rich man for a while but to think how much resources is wasted to make 100 of those, I think it's not worth it. You would rather make 100 $1 dollar and it would be more benefital to the mint. It is a fact that a coin lasts a lot longer than a paper bill! I mean, a paper bill if heavily circulated, wouldn't last any longer than 4 years in daily transaction, whereas a coin can go up to 10 easily. And seriously considering that, the costs of producing coins are a lot more benefitical than producing the same banknote with the same value over a long period of time. I just don't understand how much more useful 1 dollar bills are nowadays besides tipping and probably fanciful errors. You can always argue that you have 7 or 12 one dollar bills, but what is the point if you can easily have a 5 or 10 dollar bills with 2 $1 coins?

No, it's definately a "43" over a "42" I have been playing around with the rotation bit for a while. Will post it within the next 30 mins or so.

Oh my! Gotta get 'em them all! *NOT*

A korean 1892 5 yang coin, very very very scarce, if it is a real one. You can often see a lot of those copy coins, because they are just too scarce. I haven't actually a real one so I don't know if this is a genuine one. Some seller was offering to sell it to me really cheap, so I really don't know if it is a desperate sell or a genuine one Well appearently, he's honest enough to say that it has been mounted... Well I just thought that it looked way too real to be a fake coin, so I don't know... What is the reasonable thing to pay for this if this is a real one? The seller is claiming that Krause is having it around 1000US+ but another catalogue that I have went insane and put a value of 3,000US+ in VF, assuming that it is, but I don't know how much the mount would degrade the coin. At least, you can see that some damage is done on the reverse... so... what do you think?

Well, the only thing that anyone would dream of getting is the 1825 Konstatin Ruble... now is something that I wouldn't mind getting a copy of...

Actually, I do have a copy coin, I was too tempted not to buy it But the quality of the coin is amazing high, including all the rim details. The only two things that gave it away was one of the details in the crest, and the other was the metal alloy. Other than that, I think I got to admit that it is one of the highest *copy* quality coins ever made...

Yes, Australian coins are really odd. 1 and 2 cents coins are now way extinct and it's funny how the dollar and the 2 dollar coins are a lot smaller than the massive 50 cents coin. Perhaps the odd one is the 2 dollar coin, as it is just slightly bigger than a 5cent piece but almost thrice as thick... But honestly, there aren't that many countries that are still using 1 dollar bills... canada, uk, europe, australia, new zealand, etc all DON'T use 1 dollar bills!!! I guess the only main reason why the dollar bill is to stay is because you can seem to pay a lot with dollar bills when tipping and fake the whole scene up

Wow... sure costs quite a fair but, but I guess it's normal. It does have the full gold set too if you looked at the link. Pretty impressive I say... :|