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Firstly I spotted the 1912 ruble and now this... the ultra ultra ultra (yes ultra rare) RARE commemorative gangut ruble. There is supposed to be a mintage of 30,300 but many, if not most of them were forced to be remelted for some unknown reasons. Gangut ruble on auction This coin is SO rare that in fact, even counterfeit gangut rubles sell VERY hot, which even goes easily over 250USD, whether you believe it or not... Btw... if you wondered how expensive that ruble is... I am expecting it to hit around 4000-6000USD... :|

Japan probably released its first anime related ones in 2003 as in the astro boy proof coin set, but that was only in the medal, like in the hello kitty proof set, but nothing before 2002. Most probably Japan got the idea of using animes on coins ever since then... (hehehehe) http://www.mint.go.jp/eng/coin/link/e004.html Honestly, I just thought it was funny that some small island designed some random coins and it just had to be the most "popular" one, which happened to be Pokemon. *lol*

Here is something that I found on a Japanese auction site, with the reserve price set at 7,000USD (well I don't know what's that in pound... or probably like 3500 pounds or so) >>Link here<< Of course, I assume that by the price tag, they are not too awfully easily to find in such proof conditions. Were British coins specially made for collectors or special people in mind, or it was just done as a trial process? Or possibly that price tag is way too high...

I really fell off my chair when I saw this: LOL coin pictures Currently on auction on a Japanese site for around 70USD, I thought these coins were too funny. Now discuss what's horribly wrong with them besides fingerprints.

LOL @ last line. "Indeed much money now is little more than electrons in a computer and still people will sell their soul for it."

OMG, that reminded me of the massive Russian 5 kopeks coins Or rather, the Swedish and Russian copper plates

Yes, I know I should have posted in the link section, but meh, This is by a Japanese coin collector, and his Russian coin collections are more than amazing, as he has most of rubles by year type, which are hard to get hold, and some of them are in PROOF condition too!!! Not to forget that he does have TRIAL coins too!!! Sekine's silver ruble collection Enjoy!

Well originally the Statue of Liberty is from France... am I going to assume that politics has caused the coin designs to go stale as the relationship of US and France are not at the best times ever?

I was pretty sure he missed typing a zero in there... gold is staying around 440USD per ounce right now...

lol @ "when I hit the lottery"

Hum, are you sure they aren't those "coins" used for those magician coins? Those coins are pretty scarce to come by. Here is a link that syzygy was talking about: Link

Probably one of the fastest BIN items while the price tag is pretty high for it... I really wished I had that money to buy such coin... my coin store sells the same coin except that it's totally battered and circulated Auction item here Last year, I saw the same coin around the same grade going for around 500-600USD... can't believe it has gone that high

Now I am totally confused... What should I order... Any idea of the price tag?

I don't know why I was being awfully silly, but I guess I called up a mint here in Australia when I wondered what kind of qualification was needed to work in a mint. Nevertheless, I didn't even stand a chance to apply as one Keeping that aside, one of the interesting stories that came out from one of mint directors is that, although quite a lot of the mints are supposely government owned, the mints are supposed to be responsible for their own sales and losses, and the governments would not even give them a penny to help them out! This is one of the reasons why the mints keep on producing such commemorative coins or mint sets. I was pretty suprised out of the whole story, well yes, in a sense, it does make some sense, but does this apply to the rest of the mints worldwide?

That is the whole purpose of minting commemorative coins nowadays

Must request... for all trial notes by coinpeople... XD;;; Can I request one too Tane? XD;;;

huhuhu, how I wished I knew Spanish...

Most certainly interesting! Nice coins!

omg lol. So can I start issuing rubles? ?

Super XXL images for people who want details of this coin: Obverse: Reverse:

Hahaha, I have seen so many of those "magicians" coins. I don't know if I can tell the difference between a genuine error one or such.

But but but!!! I thought this is one of the official ones! http://coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=828&st=0 Not that I don't like this design.

P.S. There are PROOF rubles for both 1921 and 1922, but they are exceeding scarce, and easily go over 1,000USD because of their extreme scarcity.

P.S. the 1922 ruble is worth a lot more than the 1921 ruble because there are a lot less 1922 rubles. You can probably get a 1921 star ruble around 20USD or so, but a 1922 ruble will cost at least 4 to 5 times more, becaue of it's scarcity Therefore, if you do happen to see a 1922 ruble, snap it right away if you think the value is right.

Most probably 15grams of pure gold... although I have no idea. Like what josemartins said, it would be best if you can weight it, and if it weighs 16.66 grams, it's definately 15 grams of pure gold in it. Nice medal btw.