gxseries Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Great October Socialist RevolutionThis is part of the Government issued proof sets available. While it may seem pretty easy to find one, this may not necessary be true. Minted all on the same date, 20.10.1987 by the Leningrad Mint New Page 1Denomination Mass (g) Diameter (mm) Thickness (mm) Rim Total Special 1 ruble 12.8 31.0 2.3 written one ruble twice 4,000,000 200,000 3 rubles 14.35 33.0 2.3 written three ruble twice 2,500,000 200,000 5 rubles 30.0 39.0 2.3 written five ruble twice 1,500,000 200,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 This is a nice set, I won myself one from eBay just few minutes ago. Now I'm waiting it to arrive (Should not take too long, seller is in Estonia). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Congradulations Tane! The 5 ruble in proof is actually a stunner as well as it's massive size. I don't think there were too many 5 rubles that were minted in such size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Thanks! I think that this is the only one this big, the rest are a bit smaller. I have one as non-proof and it is quite a stunner too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I wasn't keeping myself in touch with the Soviet commemorative coins, but Tane, did you have a hard time looking for this set? Ironically I actually bought this set in Moscow. I haven't seen similar set for awfully long period of time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I didn't actually look for it. I was just browsing around eBay and, tada, there it was. I bought the 1987 Borodino set and 1977 Olympic set too. Some weird bug has bitten me i quess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 WAIT, you actually managed to find a Borodino set? Mine is an awful cracked set and I have to replace it eventually. I even forgot when I bought it Speaking about the Moscow Olympics set, the greatest news about it was that, I bought it at 2USD. Yes, why so cheap? That's because the dealer broke the set apart, and sold the box and the coins seperately. I only managed to find one coin out of the 6 sadly But fortunately... I got the box too... Now I'm just looking for the set + certificate... It's just too difficult to focus on the last three hundred years of Russian coinages By any chance did that same bug picked out other relatively scarce Soviet coin sets? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tane Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 Yep, I did. It didn't even feel like "managing", they just practically came to me I should be concentrating on the older stuff, but I just couldn't resist... Those three were the only ones I could find. Another coin I'm eagerly waiting is a rouble of 1892(Alexander III) in about VF-XF, perhaps more XF-ish. It should be here soon too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I can understand why you decided to turn to the Soviet coins "temporarily". Tsarist coins have been getting pricier these years and even I am feeling the crunch. And I have even lowered my expectations, down to damaged coins... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 I can understand why you decided to turn to the Soviet coins "temporarily". Tsarist coins have been getting pricier these years and even I am feeling the crunch. And I have even lowered my expectations, down to damaged coins... I think all of us, unless wealthy, are feeling the pinch. Following the link to the UBS auction contained in bobh's post of a few days ago, I was struck by how, for a major European auction, so few truly outstanding Russian coins were being offered. I think the runup in prices from demand within Russia has already resulted in many of the best coins returning to the home country. Unless prices here in the West begin to go even higher, to compete with those being paid in Russia (or else prices paid within Russia begin to fall to Western levels), then I don't think those coins will soon find their way back to the West. Of course, the UBS sale is just one auction and it takes more than one auction to establish a trend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Gees it was not but 10 years ago you could get Russian coins on the cheap, even BU Tsarist coins, now it is practically impossible. The best was buying coins during the 1990-91 in the USSR, stuff that had been squirrelled away for years started popping out of the woodwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grivna1726 Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Gees it was not but 10 years ago you could get Russian coins on the cheap, even BU Tsarist coins, now it is practically impossible. I think those days are gone forever. No more coins with a population you could count on your fingers & toes for a few hundred bucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Time for a mass scale novodel production Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banivechi Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 I think the runup in prices from demand within Russia has already resulted in many of the best coins returning to the home country. Unless prices here in the West begin to go even higher, to compete with those being paid in Russia (or else prices paid within Russia begin to fall to Western levels), then I don't think those coins will soon find their way back to the West. The same situation is today about good Romanian coins. The prices in West are more affordable than in Romania. The only problem is that Paypal doesn't work here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted August 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 It's not only Romania that's getting expensive. Other countries too that I noticed, are Poland, Korea, and probably Australia have seen their coin prices going to some ridicious prices that I have never seen before. Vietnam and Brazil seems to be on the list next, which I guess, a list of developing countries are usually easily to quality for "super fast" price increase... of course, Russia is a developing nation at the moment... too much natural resources coming out from that country Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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