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Here is a short brief coinage of the Canadian coins. http://collections.ic.gc.ca/incocoin/cannickel.html I believe that Chromium plating was only used as an alternative or more like an alloy coupled together with nickel, as nickel became too expensive in WWII. Chromium was origianlly thought to have strong lasting properties which was then used in coinage. I don't see how the Canadian mint would think of using chromium plating ever again, unless the price of nickel proves to be too expensive.

I think just the types for me... and the year would be nice if I have a somewhat complete set... I am not going into mint types or it's going to be too expensive for me

OMG NO. That is NOT TRUE. Arktikugol is indeed a Russian mining company but they didn't have enough power to mint their own coins. Instead coins were minted by the Leningrad mint or now known as the Saint Petersburg mint.

More about Belarusian ruble in here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_ruble.

Wow, that's neat. I think I remembered having a 100 swedish kroner and it was fasinating under the UV light. Does anyone know how to take them under such lighting conditions?

Well, I personally prefer them in brilliant uncirculated or proof if possible, especially if they are >1950s. I mean, they are pretty much affordable, unless they happened to be some rare coins. Other than that, I guess I only prefer circulated ones if the original circulated ones are too expensive, or sometimes as copies if the price tags are almost impossible...

500th anniversary of the Great Russian State - Peteropablo Fortress in Saint Petersburg and the Great Peter Navy. Sorry for the crap pictures

Very disappointed with the news I think Stujoe has posted a similar one in the news section. He's pretty fast http://coinpeople.com/index.php?showtopic=604

Oh wow, overstrike, or double strike, whatever you call it. Doesn't look fake at all to me... it would be interesting if he sent it for slabbing.

Well, Saint Petersburg has been minting it from 1768-1867 at a GRAND scale. That's quite evil. Hehehe. Appearently there are two different types with the Russian mintage.

Die Clash Colombia 50 Centavos .jpg 4 KB 22-Jun-2005 MDD Ike 1974 US .jpg 4 KB 22-Jun-2005 These two are the same files Pretty hard to tell from the small pictures, I guess you took them from your cellphone or something.

lol that's quite true. Well, lol @ modern technology

Mostly eBay and online stores... most of the coins that I am looking for are almost impossible to look at the stores around here. Although I did get some from the coin stores around here

Wow, fancy pictures. Yes, I have seen quite a fair bit of India and Phillipines banknotes that are like that. I guess they auction those off before they even reach the hands of the public... well at least, it's $$$ for the banks...

Pretty hard to find in mint issued folders: Limited issue of 5,000, whereas the total coinage was 25,000 each. Each coin is a tiny 1/4 oz silver.

The following is a link to the Bank of Russia, which archives all the modern commemorative coins minted after 1991. Modern Russian Coins That should be the ultimate link for all of the Russian Federation commemorative coins, as that is the official site.

Geez, Chernobyl. That's a sad story. It's not the distance that's important if you are concerned about radiation, but more likely, the food products that you eat, and the water supply. Those are a lot harder to control, especially ground water, and some babusikas who collect wild mushrooms to earn a living... farming areas around that areas, etc... pretty sad stories really.

1756 kopek over 5 kopeks 1723-1730 http://auction.conros.ru/auction.cgi?lotID=55839 Another example of 1793 5 kopeks over 1796 10 kopeks. http://auction.conros.ru/auction.cgi?lotID=54043 lol @ prices

wow, this is a hot topic. Nice banknotes O_O Does anyone know if there are countries that actually DO auction such fancy numbers off to the public before they even hit the banks for circulations? I know Singapore does that, as they auction off all the straight numbers and other reserved numbers. I don't know if other countries do that, but I honestly thought that is a brilliant way for the printing companies; not that I would like it, but at least I know that I can buy it if I wished to. Something off topic, but there was several cases in Japan this year as the banknotes changed, where bank employees were found to have exchanged such "fancy" numbers with their own. Well, hard to say what kind of crime that is, but yes, if I am remember right, they were charged under the law of pampering public properties or something.

OMG lol. What a pain >_<

looks like a die crack there.

Does anyone come across any neat nice banknote numbers, such as a straight row number, as in 11111111 or anything as neat as a row like this? 12345678 Of course it must be pretty difficult to get a row of straight numbers... If I am not wrong, this is what I have. I have a 1997 Russian serial no, ab 6666655, Australian 100 dollar, CB969996999 (can't remember exactly...) and Japan 2000 yen, HB 551155 (they are all coming off from my head so meh.)

That can be written by any ameteurs and seriously any coin collectors wouldn't dare to declare that it is a booming market. In fact, any coin collectors would be upset, as that would get many lame people getting into the market without knowing the real value and unnecessarily causing bad inflation

Here is a list of the coin grading services, and I think it's pretty well summarized here: http://rg.ancients.info/guide/slabs.html Just don't get any unknown brand slabs... there is a reason to it. Would you trust this one, for example? http://www.nugrade.com/

PROOF O_O Nice!