Fake Russian Coins? Sovietski Collection

Hello, I have these 20 coins that to me seem fishy. Weight is all over the place, not 14.35 grams as it should. Comes with COA but that seems fishy as well as it states weight is one ounce each. Please see pics. @gxseries

 

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This to me looks highly like a genuine set. Definitely not 1 ounce as stated. Would like closeup photos. The reason weight would be likely all over the place is that this is nickel-copper. Weight tolerance is not as strict as precious metals. Heck - I am happy to gamble that your current circulating coins would have loose weight tolerance as well.

Sovietski was known to market "cheap" Russian coins and upsell it at some absurd prices. Prices at one stage fell however many Russian coins have risen in prices.

Now if you bought this cheap - congratulations! At one stage this was easily a 500+ dollar set as buyers were having a bidding war at 20 - 50 dollars EACH for some coins. Some rare error coins exist and those are priced out of my league. I missed my opportunity in getting such a set when they were priced very low - just 5 dollars each more than 10 years ago.

 

Thank you for reply. What makes you think they could be genuine? I weighed just a few as I can not remove most from those airtites. Weight was between 13,80 grams the least and 14,70 the most. That's about 0,5 gram off. I will try to take pics and weigh each one, including the rim which has some writing on it but very faint.

 

Let's assume that the paperwork wasn't part of this set. These coins were struck in proof like condition. As far as I am aware, counterfeits do exist but they still fail to retain that sharp proof like feature. The edge is actually pretty faint as the care factor for such coins didn't exist much back then. I do understand that the weight tolerance is quite high but do check your current circulating coins - it's just not there.

Again as I haven't seen each coin - I can't be certain any high valued coin has been swapped out with a high quality counterfeit.

 

I would say, you got genuine set. I like them all.

 

Same set, fake, 15 dollars / set on ebay.

 

Coin 1 - 14.48 grams

 

Coin 2 - 14.63 grams

 

Coin 3 - 14.02 grams

 

Coin 4 - 14.02 grams

 

Coin 5 - 13.80 grams

 

Coin 6 - 14.25 grams

 

Coin 7 - 14.66 grams

 

Coin 8 - 14.05 grams

 

Coin 9 - 14.15 grams

 

Coin 10 - 14.28 grams

 

Coin 11 - 14.05 grams

 

Coin 12 - 14.62 grams