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  1. Looking to buy some banknotes if someone has come across the following:

     

    Imperial

    Any 1893-1897

    Any 1899 25 Rubles

    Any 1898 5 or 10 Rubles

    1898 1 Rouble - Pleske, Timashev, Konshin signatures. Pleske and Timashev looking for VF or higher, and Konshin looking for any condition.

    1899 50 Rubles - Any signature in VF and higher

    1909 10 Roubles - Timashev signature in an F and higher condition

    1909 5 Roubles - Konshin signature in XF and higher

     

    Soviet

    Looking for anything 1918-1947!

    Also, XF+ or UNC of some late Soviet notes (1961 100 Rubles, 1991 50, 100, 200 and 500 Rubles)

     

    Message me.

     

  2. Hello everyone

     

    I am looking to venture a little bit into currency collecting. I am wondering first off if there is a price guide for paper currency similar to the NGC guide online? Also I am looking for some recommendations... I have already acquired a Zimbawbwe 100 million dollar bill but that was just for the joke value of it. I am looking primarily for a good foreign bill that could be had for under $10 that's at least 100 years old. Any suggestions? Thanks.

     

    If you want foreign bills that are 100 years old or more for under $10, I highly highly recommend Imperial Russian banknotes. The 1898-1915 period saw such a ridiculous rise in inflation that many of the 1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 100, and 500 Rouble notes can be had for very little (compared to other notes, and as I mentioned in another post the prices on these are starting to increase). These notes are absolutely beautiful, too, considered cutting edge printing in its time.

  3. Been away from collecting for almost 2 years now, and finally had the itch to come back and take a look at what I missed. Noticed right away that prices have shot up significantly, both for Russian coins and banknotes it seems. And like others have mentioned, the supplies that remain seem to be low quality junk rather than worthy pieces. Are prices just going to continue going up and supplies continue to be sucked back into Europe? Not quite sure where this trend is headed, it's not like collecting of Russian coins will die off, it seems it will simply just get harder and harder to get started or continue building a collection.

  4. So I've been away from my collection for about 2-3 years now, and decided to come back and see what was available on ebay and how some of the prices were looking these days... and I noticed a serious increase in price for all grades of Soviet banknotes (1940s, 1920s) and Imperial notes (especially the less common signatures for all denominations). Also, it seemed that very very few auctions are now from sellers in the US, everything is being sold abroad... are the supplies drying up? Are European collectors sucking up these notes and driving the price up? Any ideas about what's happening? I mean, it's great to know that my collection's value went up significantly if I were to sell, but it makes it harder to keep building it...

     

    Hopefully there are some other Russian banknote collectors here :read:

  5. These tokens (or jetons, not sure what to call them) are made from some sort of metal alloy (not silver) and each one has a 100% original Imperial Russian stamp (from 1880-1915) in it. As far as size, the rectangle is about 1" by 0.75" :

     

    Item 1:

     

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    Back:

     

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    Item 2:

     

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    Item 9:

     

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    Each one will have an attachment of this type, so you guys can use them wherever you want:

     

    http://goo.gl/4EdD1 (The hook/string itself)

    http://goo.gl/A8qQ7 (Example on my keys)

    http://goo.gl/wDnXC (Example on a school bag)

     

     

    Price: $8.99, free shipping in the US. Payment only through Paypal. Guaranteed shipment within 24 hours of payment.

    Message me with any questions! I will respond within a few hours.

  6. If anyone has any Imperial Russian coins, medals, tokens, badges, copies of coins, I am interested in buying for cheap (really cheap). I want to make a keychain for myself, since I collect Russian coins, but I do not want to damage any of the coins in my collection and do not want to spend money to buy a coin to later damage it. So maybe someone here has a damaged coin, holed coin/token, something like that which they feel bad about throwing out but have no use. Even those cheap chinese fakes of the poltina, if anyone has one of those (eBay I think removed them) would be good since it can just be holed and hung on a chain. Let me know what you have and maybe I'll take it off your hands.

  7. Hey, everyone,

     

    I know this is not a coin, but figured the best place to post this is in the Russian coins forum where I know I'll find more people who can read Russian. Please help me with the inscription around this medal/token... what does it say? I actually read Russian (but my vocabulary is basic) but the words aren't making sense to me, it looks like there are a lot of abbreviations. What does this mean:

     

    "Попеч.имп. человек. общ. для сбора пожертв. на восп. и устр. бед. дет. в мастер".

     

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  8. I'm never a fan of gold for whatever reason it is. Bought a 1900 5 ruble gold coin and sold it within a week for a mere 100USD or something like that. Still don't regret it.

     

    Guess the best is to lower your expectation to 5 ruble gold coin as they are more plentiful and cheaper. Thing is, I'm pretty sure most buyers are more than happy to hoard them at 400usd each in decent condition and resell them at a profit. Just the way supply and demand is.

     

    I'm the same way, I don't find gold very appealing. It's high cost means the tiniest coins are worth $$$$$. I prefer the larger, heavier, silver pieces of Russian currency, they are much more appealing to me.

  9. Find a local coin dealer that handles world gold. They should be help to help you with a higher degree of security than a random buy on Ebay.

     

    Since the coin in any condition is still 0.2488 AGW, you're looking at at least $373 for any condition, even a worn disc of what used to be a 10 Ruble gold coin. Plus given their appeal and hsitory and colelctability, there's at least a small premium. I'd say unless you have $400 lying around, this part of your display may need to be changed. Include a photo?

  10. What note did Mussolini appear on?

     

    As far as I know, Mussolini did not appear on Italian currency. There are some coins with Mussolini on them, but I'm pretty sure they are fantasy pieces (one side has Mussolini, the other has a lion).

     

    Others who may know more about Italian currency, feel free to correct me, but I'm pretty sure that Italian currency of WWII only had the King on there at the time.

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    This note has a stirringly mysterious vignette of a peasant with bundled sheaves of wheat in the background, rather haunting and ironic in effect. In reality the Germans managed to pillage most of the grain grown in Ukraine during their occupation and very little actually went to the local population.

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    When the Germans overran Ukraine they imposed a whole new monetary system on the country, the USSR rubles were removed from circulation at a rate of 1:1 vs the karbovnets denominated currency that they issued. The karbovnets was valued at 10:1 to the German Reichsmark. Curiously, but tellingly the Germans issued this currency with only a small amount of Ukrainian langauge text - on the bottom reverse of the note - in effect letting the Ukrainians know where they stood in the situation. The first notes prepared had all of the text in Ukrainian, but they were rejected by the German run "Central Emission Bank". One wonders why they even bothered denominating the currency in a name familiar to Ukrainians, they might just as well as referred to the new currency as marks given the presence of mostly German language on the notes.

     

    Coincidentally, I just got a 200 Karbowanez note about a week ago. Thanks for the background info, I did notice right when I got it that it had a very weird feeling to it, with a picture of a Ukrainian peasant woman surrounded by German text, even the note reflects an occupation.

  12. :ninja:;)

     

    That's how I got ADDICTED to note collecting (and now have a very close to complete silver cert series). My dad finds a few of those every few years.

     

    ;) I can see where the addiction comes from. I normally only collect Russian notes, but this silver certificate has now joined a $2 bill I have (2003), and I'm planning on adding a red seal $2 1928 to it to get hit the eras kind of broadly. Your set must be quite a sight!

  13. Russian banknotes covering 1898 to 1991 (Imperial era and the whole span of the Soviet Union)

     

    Imperial Russian coins (all periods, I like to get a sample from each Czar, but most of my collection is Nicholas II)

     

    Soviet 50 Kopek and 1 Ruble coins 1921-1991

     

    Banknotes issued by Nazi Germany (1939-1945, and any issued in occupied territories like Ukraine in that time frame)

     

    Trying not to develop an interest in other ones for my own sake :ninja:

  14. I've finally sat down to write about my trip to the spring Baltimore Coin & Currency Convention last Friday. Another long post. Extra points if you read it all.

     

    The floor was open til 6 and I was meeting a friend in DC in the evening AND I live in Richmond, 3 hours away, so I took my time getting to the show. Didn't arrive til closer to 3 p.m, when many coin dealers are headed to dinner.

    ;)

     

     

    I was hunting for the keys to my Peace dollar series and some keys to my $1 silver certificate collection. I arrived on the floor with my 2008 red book, Friedberg, and spreadsheet with values from Heritage, Numismedia, Red Book, and Friedberg. That proved to be an awkward thing. I've brought spreadsheets before, but this was the first time dealers actually looked at it. A few times I was too lazy to say "Do you have Fr. 1617*, 239, 238*........" and just handed them the list and had them tell me if they had them. One or two times, the dealer asked to see my list. Each time was awkward because I had values on their.

     

    Dealer: "Where are these values from?"

     

    Me: "Heritage auction lots sold in the last few weeks"

     

    Dealer: "Oh"

     

    One dealer wasn't happy to see the note she bought for $800 and was selling for $500 could be had in the same condition on Heritage for $300. Needless to say, she would not lower her price and I was not willing to go to hers when they could be readily had online.

     

    I remembered how difficult it is to look for key $1 silver certificates at a convention. The series is pretty common and sits on the bottom of big piles of notes. But the key notes aren't in most dealer inventories and, at the same time, aren't expensive enough to be feature notes. Oftentimes, dealers just bundle their notes in thick stacks. Sometimes they're ordered and I can point to a stack and pray a note I need is in there. Sadly, I ended up walking past many tables of notes. The disorder was intimidating, or the dealers didn't seem knowledgeable. Really, how should they know if they have a FR 1617* among their piles of notes?

     

    I could only find two of the half-dozen or so notes I needed. Usually, I can find a few of each, but instead I found several good examples of only these two notes. All were in or near UNC. That meant I couldn't take a FR 239 home.

     

    Instead, I brought home this:

     

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    1935 G $1 silver certificate (good for one dollar of silver when redeemed) - STAR note (replacement for error notes) - signatures of Smith and Dillon - with motto variety (has In God We Trust on reverse) - Friedberg # 1617*, 1,080,000 star notes printed. Certified Ch. Unc. 64 EPQ by PMG.

     

    It's not one of the keys in the series, but I needed it. I got it at a good price from a dealer I've dealt with for several years at the show. It's easy to be remembered because there are not a lot of folks my age on the floor. He's always had trouble with me because his notes were always out of my price range, despite his amazing selection.

     

    Anyway, I'll keep going to him in the future. He's been supportive and helpful.

     

    My real treasure of the show is this girl:

     

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    1928 $1 - silver Peace dollar struck at the Philadelphia mint. This is one of two keys of the series at a mintage of 360,649, almost 500,000 less than the next rarest. I'd give it about MS-64. The dealer had A LOT of the key dates. I had probably 8-10 1928's in different grades I could choose from. I've never seen a selection like that. They all were priced the same, so I chose the one that had the best luster and looks.

     

    Peace dollars got me started collecting. It's my first series and my most complete. Unfortunately, I hadn't added a single Peace dollar to my collection in years. I had gotten all the easy coins in the set and was stuck on the keys. I also was busy working on the silver certificate series. I've seen lower grade examples through the years, but none had the right eye quality or price. I was determined to come home with a key from this show. We all know the saying "buy the best coin you can for your money". Well, I had more money than I'm used to, so I bought this UNC key.

     

    I'm very satisfied. I've waited 15 years for that coin. It's the most I've paid for a coin and a key to my collection.

     

    That was the end of the show for me.

     

    I showed my mom the coin and note a few days ago. She was holding the coin, waving around with a loose grip, as she told me a story about her father's missing collection of Peace dollars. I thought to myself "Oh no, she's going to drop it. Nah, she won't".

     

    Then I heard it hit the floor.

     

    I wasn't happy. Her response was "What? It's made of metal. You can't hurt it by dropping it."

     

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    congrats on your peace dollar! nice post about the convention. What did your mom mean by her father's "missing" collection? Does no one know where he put it, did he sell it... ? Found that last bit interesting, feels like there's a story behind there?

  15. It wanted to know ... One can use and civilians?

    So if circulated in the German army, because the German army was stationed in Romania during WW II, one can say that this bill was circulated in Romania, right?

     

    Thank you very much for information!

     

    I collect banknotes and coins from around the world! I have a very large collection, but I have some beautiful notes.

     

    I believe that the notes could have been used locally in the occupied country. But, the military made it much more favorable to keep the currency within the military by making it 10 times face value.

  16. No! I wanted to know your opinion ... I do not want to sell banknote! ;)

    This bill is the best bill to my collection.

     

    Do you know more about this bill? Other than the Krause catalog. :ninja:

     

    What exactly do you want to know about it?

     

    Those reichspfennig notes were issued as military payment certificates for the Nazi forces, particularly the Wermacht in your case. It was encouraged for soldiers to use these notes within the military - if you used it in military channels, it would be worth 10 times the face value.

     

    Do you collect Nazi currency? Or just starting out?

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