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Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
Hey everybody, I was just wondering what a good price to aim for on a USSR mint set, I am looking for one of the cheaper years because I am just starting out with world coins.
Thanks!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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talking about USSR I have to say I had to say my friend used to have 2 of these so since the moment I saw it I love it and had to go one of my many 1885 morgans to own this little piece of history !   but to be honesty with you russian cois are very chip you just have to find a russian friend with family in russia to help you to get any ussr coin you want ! |
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Valued Member
 United States
286 Posts |
WOW, that is a beautiful coin! how much did it cost you?
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United States
1204 Posts |
they are usually cheap but my friend ask me for one of my 1885 Morgan dollars and I gave him so ! I could not waste the chance to have this 1 communist rubre because USSR is gone with the wind and now is history . this coin was made when they had the Moscow Olympic games and also celebrate the launch of the USSR satellite as showed in the reverse pretty cool ! |
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Valued Member
United States
286 Posts |
indeed! I love coins with historic backrounds
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Australia
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Should be able to pick a late 80s or 90s Soviet mint set for under 20-30 dollars. That said, I got a fair bit of Soviet commemorative rubles that I have to get rid off. Some of them are discolored which I will have to sell for real cheap.
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Germany
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In general you can pick up the coins for a lot cheaper. There is a set of coins from the last year of communism when they changed their coinage with a picture of a building in the Kremlin on it, that you could probably find for $5 or something, not sure how much I spent but not much.
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United States
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That said, I got a fair bit of Soviet commemorative rubles that I have to get rid off. gxseries, do you have Y#197, 1985 Lenin's birth anniversary, and Y#290, 1981 Barcelona Olympics javelin thrower, - the only two I'm missing in my collection. Also, if you have Y#201.1/2 variety with "L" as inverted V to unload, I'd be interested too. Thanks! |
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Australia
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You mean this?  I didn't know the importance of it until I had someone emailing me asking if I was willing to sell this coin. Puzzled over why he would want something that's common, he was kind enough to explain the variety difference and I realize this is not a normal coin. I figured this must have been a mule as well as the older Soviet rubles were using /\ as opposed to /|, i.e. muled with an older die. As I promised to look for a similar coin when I can find one, the last one that I have seen on ebay was sold for probably over 100USD a couple of years ago. Pretty tough I tell you. I suprisingly don't have Lenin's birth anniversary duplicate. This is this Soviet coin lot that I bought off for cheap and hence the reason why I am trying to get rid of. The 1991 Barcelona Olympics javelin thrower is only sold as proof and the mintage is relatively low - around 40,000? There's one on ebay at the moment starting out at 1.50 but it has a haze toning on it. Will keep you in mind when I find them. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseriesMy numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htmRegularly updated at least once a month. |
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United States
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The 1991 Barcelona Olympics javelin thrower is only sold as proof and the mintage is relatively low - around 40,000 That's why I don't have it! I wasn't aware I was missing it till I got the Krause catalog, I just assumed I had a complete Barcelona set. By the way in the Krause they don't make a difference value-wise between two varieties of "L" in the Year of the Peace ruble. I need to look into that - how rare the variety is! |
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