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Since this hasn't been viewed yet, I also have a question about these coins...
They're supposed to be USSR 1920's silver. My question in particular is about the top right coin, it's a 1925, 15 Kopeck, the thing is he had several other listing of similar batches, and the 1925-15's all seem to have similar wear where the globe/sickle/hammer is supposed to be, this is one of the better examples since you actually see a bit of the outline. Maybe only one or two of them had the full thing and he listed maybe 5 or 6.. I just ordered about $30 of these off the guy, but I haven't paid yet since I'm waiting on bids that I might win. What do you all think? Am I about to be ripped off?
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I recently bought some USSR coins off eBay, and I seem to have found an issue with some of them cracking, among other things with a few of them.
My question is, is this what those things are supposed to do after 40 years, or are they fake? I've never seen a coin break, and I was able to bend the broken portion into a snapping point, if I try hard enough, I think they'll become dust.
They're not magnetic, so I know there isn't rust.
I just can't see why anyone in their right mind would counterfeit USSR coins.
USSR Coins
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Oh, I went through all of them and snapped the ones I could, I figured, if they fake they need to be broken, if they're real, I just made some years become rarer (even though they're not really rare yet).
Most are like '62 or '82. The thing about the ones I posted, I can keep breaking them if I wanted to, but when I take a knife to the discolored edges, they appear to be copper underneath.
It reminds me that they were in a fountain or something and somehow the inside rotted, but not the outside.
I have one or two solid ones where I can feel it breaking inside, but the outside is still too strong to break them.