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gxseries
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Australia
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 Posted 11/06/2009 11:44 am
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Here is a lot of pattern "coins" that I bought. They are suprising not that expensive, all of them well under 20 dollars each. Turns out they can be very affordable.
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svslav
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 11:58 am
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The ones in plastic look Armenian. What are they patterns of? Could we see the other side?
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gxseries
Pillar Of The Community
Australia
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Posted 11/06/2009 12:06 pm
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scslav, you are very right. There's more information on this site but it's in Russian. From what I gather, these were struck for Earthquake volunteers that helped out in the 1988 Spitak earthquake.
There are three varieties, one struck in brass, the other two in nickel (nickel-copper?), one in proof and the other in UNC condition.
Here are the pictures:
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Jeff 11
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United Kingdom
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Posted 11/06/2009 12:09 pm
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Yep armenian definately for the one on the left. It's an Armenia 1991 1 stak, struck in nickel as a Proof. A pattern coin struck by Leningrad Mint for Earthquake volunteers in 1988. Mintage: 2000.
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gxseries
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Australia
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svslav
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 12:19 pm
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Gxseries, if you link me to the site I could help you with the info. Russian is my native language.
I see the date of May 5, 1918 on them, that is when Armenia tried to become independent of Russia.
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svslav
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United States
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Posted 11/06/2009 12:36 pm
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This pattern depicts a coin of Tigran II (the Great). The coin has a legend "one stak". Around the coin it says " Silver Dram of Tigran the Great, 1st Century BC. Under the coin it says "For a Gracious Deed" (as Jeff 11 said, those were given to volunteers helping with cleaning up after the earthquake, though they say it was the earthquake of 1991).
The other side says Republic of Armenia and the date of independence of Ottoman Turkey (not Russia as I said previously).
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