NumisMattic2200 Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Recently acquired a nice hoard of Russian coins from the British auction house B. Frank & Son but I don't know much about these Russians at all so I could do with some opinions from all who are enthusiastic about them. I won them quite unexpectedly after making various hopeful bids at the lower end of the price estimations for many lots and these turned up with half a dozen Half-Crowns about a week ago. First up, the Olympics collection of 1 Rouble commemoratives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Another little treasure chest of 1 Rouble pieces, this one containing 8 pieces. Closer-up photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Karl Marx 1 Rouble Valentina Tereshkova (20 years of space flights) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Good grief Matt, fantastic photos but can you reduce the filesize on them? Not like everyone around the world has access to high speed bandwidth all the time. Good news is, if you sell them on ebay, they should be worth quite a fair bit of money. The last time I saw an Olympic set going, it was over 100USD. I don't remember the exact final price but it could be anywhere near 200USD or so even though it's just a nickel copper set. Yes it's worth a decent amount. Not very common. With regards to the second set, can you please confirm if all coins are either the original or the novodel? You can confirm them by looking at the edge where it is denoted as 1988 H for 1988 Novodel. The next two coins in their cases - I believe they should have their hard plastic case also go for good money with more than 20 dollars each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RW Julian Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 The Olympic proofs generally come in a blue case and these are quite scarce. The 1970 Lenin, if memory serves correctly, was not restruck in 1988 and appears also to be in proof. If these are all proofs, and original, then it is quite a find. RWJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Neat coins! Thank you for showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted September 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Heh, well thanks for confusing me guys, I really have no idea about these but I can't really believe my coin cases would be worth $100 let alone $200 even on eBay. If that were so, you can make me an offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexbq2 Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Heh, well thanks for confusing me guys, I really have no idea about these but I can't really believe my coin cases would be worth $100 let alone $200 even on eBay. If that were so, you can make me an offer I don't collect soviet coins, but I hear that coins in original packaging are worth a lot more then just the pieces by themselves. It apparently also counts what packaging they are in since some boxes were less common than others! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted September 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Very interesting..I will take it all onboard... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Agreed - it's the packaging that makes people pay for them. Without them, I don't see how any coins top 10 dollars at any time unless you have some desperate buyer or being generous; it's the packaging that makes people think it's scarce and they are indeed uncommon. Best thing is if you can keep it, do so. If not, I'm sure you'll make a good profit on ebay. I'm interested but to put a low bid is offending hence my suggestion on putting them on ebay. Matt, I didn't notice something up to now, what is that paper documentation that you have there? I don't recall seeing anything like that on the net so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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