Article Title: Russians buy Seated halves, dollars

Discussion in 'Coin Chat' started by coinwarrior, Mar 28, 2008.

  1. coinwarrior

    coinwarrior New Member

    while thumbing through my most recent issue of Numismatic News, the headline "Russians by Seated halves, dollars" sprang out at me. But then there was only a one sentence blurb near the end of the article related to the headline. Apparently several russian buyers are picking these up at large coin shows.

    Question, is there something we are missing in this series, or is there someone else going on here?
     
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  3. kanga

    kanga 65 Year Collector

    With luck they are buying them from China ;)

    But to answer your question, I haven't heard of anything.
    But then ordinary folks like me never hear about it until it's too late.
     
  4. gxseries

    gxseries Coin Collector

    Yes, Russians are now loaded with money. A couple of years ago when I was at a coin fair here in Sydney, all I can hear Russians fiercely bargaining coins and these people pay thousands of dollars in cold hard cash. They aren't only buying Russian coins but as well as German, American, Italian etc. It's shocking the way how they buy coins.
     
  5. cesariojpn

    cesariojpn Coin Hoarder

    In b4 Soviet Russia Jokes.
     
  6. CoinGal07

    CoinGal07 Still Collecting

    Can you post the link to the article here? Thank you :)
     
  7. 900fine

    900fine doggone it people like me

    Some are.

    I, for one, am glad to see it. They have an amazing, sometimes tortuous history, this last 1,000 years... good days are ahead for our Russian friends.
     
  8. asciibaron

    asciibaron /dev/work/null

    our best customers are young Russian and Polish "dealers" who always pay in cash and always buy the nicest coins - they are taking them home to the newly rich in those countries. this is what happens when a free markets explodes in a place that only ever had a black market.

    -steve
     
  9. coinwarrior

    coinwarrior New Member

    Sorry, it was in the print edition, so I do not have one
     
  10. cesariojpn

    cesariojpn Coin Hoarder

    SHENANIGANS!! I CALL SHENANIGANS!!

    Unless this is like Coin World or Coinage, provide where you saw the article. Any self-respecting Newspaper/magazine will have an online version.
     
  11. GDJMSP

    GDJMSP Numismatist Moderator

    Yeah they probably do. Unfortunately only paid subscribers could view the link - after they had logged in to their account.
     
  12. SmokeMonkey

    SmokeMonkey i brake for peace dollars


    in soviet russia...coins buy you!
     
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