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BTW I saw only a few 1996 coins in circulation, most of them even in 2001 were earlier dates, usually 1992 or lesser 1994. Varieties even in the same year with regards to the milling on the coins, and even the metal composition are common.

With regards to mintmark, the mint set of 2001 states that the mintmark is of the National Bank of Ukraine, but this is not attached to a location. Prior to 1998 all Ukrainian coins were minted in a temporary facility in Lu'hansk. After 1998 all coins are minted in the new mint facility in Kyiv.

Ask someone to whom Ukraine is near and dear:

1 and 2 Kopiika coins are very rarely seen in circulation, 5 K. is usually the smallest denomination coin in circulation, roughly a USA cent. I only ever managed to find a couple of the 1 K coins, and a few other 2 K coins. When I got them I asked for them from a change tray, instead of 5 K coins.

Spelling, Ukrainian "i" is equivalent of russian "и" й is the same in both languages, which is equivalent of y in English.

Special attention needs to be paid to the pronunciation of consonants which differ from each other, ie in Ukrainian "г" which is "g" in the west is most often pronounced "h".

Now Ukraine, especially western and southern part, mandates that all documents be in Ukrainian and NOT Russian. This is a pain when you are used to Russian but not Ukrainian. Even in Ukraine it is very easy to go to regions where there are hardly any Ukrainian speakers, a lot of people in the "Red East" speak only Russian.

I totally misread the title of this.  I thought a woman had stuffed her son in a stove in a Hansel and Gretel-esque situation.

She does need to get her son groomed for TV though.

There are several political regions in Russia which refer to themselves as Republics, they have varying degrees of interpretation of this moniker however. Tatarstan views itself as an autonomous part of Russia, while some in the Republic of Chechenya would consider themselves completely independent, and occupied.

In a similar vain, in Ukraine the Krim Republic, which encompasses what westerners know as the Crimea, has it's own President, and legislature but is an autonomous part of Ukraine. This was a political compromise, when some Russian speakers wanted to secede from Ukraine and become part of Russia again. Krim was only made a part of Ukraine in 1954, it was a *gift* from Russia.

http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/4601483/detail.html

When you click on the news story from the local television station, the finders say they hope to get 2* face for the silver coins

I'll give 5*

Nope, that's admin area.

I nominate you for admin too

Canadian Tall Ships Commem 2005

This was noted in their email today.

So get those things up!  I wanna see them.  We all have the green light.

Looks like I maybe keeping them for awhile I was hoping to sell them so we could go back to Ukraine, things with the government are very iffy right now. So I will write to Ms. Timoshenko and she what she will do.

Choose our titles?  With old CP it was 100 posts right?  I'm at 200.

I would think Dr. Bunny would be able to do that now that she graduated to Moderator status

do you have any pictures? i'm trying to find similar notes from goznak security printing. very hard to find...

I will have to dig out and scan, actually these are from De La Rue(I think), have Aleksandr Pushkin on them. And gobblygook cyrillic characters, they were test notes printed for Goznak.

Coin issued under Mithradates, from Bosporan Kingdom near Krim peninsula of modern day Ukraine.

Nicest I have seen of these. Usually the legends are illegible.

Very very nice are both. I only have Russian test notes, or what purports to be them:)

How about Gothic Florins 

 

(Yeah, I know ... y'all get tired of this, don't ya')

 

Never get tired of lovelies. One of Britains top 5 coins.

This is my latest acquisition, a token from Andover, Hampshire. This piece was issued in 1666, and is rather unusual for a municipal token, they tended to be a bit larger, this is a rather smallish piece more like those issued by private individuals.

This piece has an image of the arms of Andover, the lion and the tree, and the legend "Help O' Andever" notice the spelling of Andover. On the reverse is the image of a crippled man, something not quite as acceptable to be portrayed on a token in the 21st century, but not out of the ordinary in the 17th century, and the legend "For Y' Poores Benefit"

Extreme left red wing communist... (eh)

 

*oops* pardon me.

 

Russian coins.

Say Soviet coins and you get your party card back. Otherwise you will have been banished to the gulag. Believe me, I have seen it. You wouldn't like it.

Right now ancient Sicilian coins, and also ancients from the Black Sea. As a side I collect 17th century English tokens.

This is my latest acquisition, a token from Andover, Hampshire. This piece was issued in 1666, and is rather unusual for a municipal token, they tended to be a bit larger, this is a rather smallish piece more like those issued by private individuals.

This piece has an image of the arms of Andover, the lion and the tree, and the legend "Help O' Andever" notice the spelling of Andover. On the reverse is the image of a crippled man, something not quite as acceptable to be portrayed on a token in the 21st century, but not out of the ordinary in the 17th century, and the legend "For Y' Poores Benefit"

Did you have the 2004 "EU enlargement" 5 euro already?

 

I have one, that was found in circulation. It's got some traces of circulation... but still is a nice silver coin

Can you save for me and send with the 10 Euro? TIA

26.06.2005 goda

Dutch Commems in silver seem to be the only series I collect all of.

Grr... if you had any Russian coins for offer, I would most probably fallen for it...

I probably cannot get enough out of the Russian collection that I would bother to sell it. Most are going to be Scottish, British, European minors. I have a load of USA stuff, mostly colonial banknotes too.

But maybe not...

Won't go into details. Just think stupid government.

Nice!

Anything is possible in Russia. Once in a cash strapped museum in Khabarovsk, the director tried to sell me some of their collections. Slightly less than authorised issues emanating from Goznak would not surprise me.

It is zhagatka!

WHOW! I now know where she got the 150 posts!

I oughtta create a thread like that so I can be post leader again, like I was for 10 minutes on Sunday. My claim to coinpeople infamy

Who will be the first to offer some nice numismatic object for sale on the new board? I thought it might be me, but decided I am still in "just purchase" mode, maybe a sell mode will come along soon! Anyone got any nice Canadian stuff for sale? Large cents maybe?

Sucky thing about this, 30 day rule. I have to sell about 90% of my collection over the next 6-7 months so we can return to Ukraine - for you guessed it...Another 30 day rule.

I HATE 30 DAYS. !

Steps down from soapbox.

Now I know I am not in complete darkness in American culture.