Russian Coins Outside Russia

I have perhaps 100 to 150 coins from Russia. These are a few of the better, or older, ones:

To ship out. Import is legal for old russian coins.
Usually russians don't use ebay, but then do, trying not to send any coins abroad. There's a lot news in russian language about people who get in jail because mailing cheap bad old coins abroad. Officialy it called "cultural value", but in fact it was a rusty ugly copper coins, that don't have a big value at all, and no cultural at everyday thinking.
At all, "culrural value" is not only 50+ years old coins, it's very blurry definition. It also could be any coins before 50 years, if expertise will say it. That's why russians scared to send anything abroad - it's better be cautious with everything and not risk for your own life.
I heard about good experience, people sending 50yrs+ coins to PCGS/NGC, but don't know how they do it. And it's extremely expensive.

The only reason why I started collecting Russian coins is because it was hard to find decent souvenirs when I was there around 2000. That's almost 20 years ago.

Ever since then, I decided to buy what I can from overseas. Most of them are from ebay and from US. Back then, Russian coins weren't as expensive as today. If you tell me to start again, I'll throw my hat down. I've slowed down buying them as most of the nicer coins are out of my reach. I'm sure one day my collection will get broken down and get sold eventually. Not particular rare but some are quite scarce. I have not seen a couple for quite a few years.

This is one of the coins I got from a Russian collector. I work for a travel company and a colleague gave her my duplicates on a trip to Russia and brought back coins for me when he returned to the UK.



I have a lot of contact with Russians, as one of my best friends is married to a Russian woman and her family visit the UK frequently. I was best man at their wedding in 2011 and they give me loose change from their pockets from time to time!

Wow! All coins except denga are very expensive and even in Russia you can't see them often because of the price. The trird coin is made of moldavian coin, do you know it's history?

ammcollect: I am aware of the history of the 1795 MM 2 kopek. I also have its sister 1795 MM 1 kopek overstruck over 1762 1 kopek. Moscow Mint was shut in 1789 after overstriking some older coinage. It reopened again in 1795 to overstrike any unuseable coinage. The Sadagura coins were some of them. Because of the hardness of these coins, it is presumed that not many were overstruck as the dies would have worked a lot harder. Survival rate of any of 1795 MM coins are very, very low - perhaps in just hundreds or so. I'm missing the 1795 MM 5 kopek which is much rarer.

The denga coin is actually a lot tougher than what you would imagine - it's overstruck over 1724 kopek which is very scarce in any condition. Bought this coin maybe about 10 years ago - haven't found one it in better condition or affordable.

Speaking of Sadagura coins - here are some of the tougher ones

Here's my new pocket piece.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Russia-1-R...AOSwO6haiWA5
A lowball for sure.