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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 142744, member: 4373&quot;]Coopra, the reason why I started to collect Russian coins was because of a book that I bought in Moscow. It&#039;s called &quot;Proshloe v monetah&quot;, printed in 1994, by A.V. Yurov, which shows commemorative Russian coins from 1832-1991. I actually bought that book in Dom Knigi in Arbat Street. I had to admit, I didn&#039;t really appericate old Russian coins in the beginning, but what shook me hard was the large collection of Elizabeth and Peter I rubles when it was on display... but of course the price was several tens of thousands of rubles, which shocked me. </p><p><br /></p><p>Soon later, I bought a set of 64 Soviet commemorative rubles in Izmalovski Park before I left Russia... and that started my terrible bug of collecting Russian coins... </p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps I should start to collect Russian Medieval coins but the real problem is identification can become quite difficult, and often, becomes very specialized areas. I prefer to have coins where you can directly tell what year the coins were minted, instead of one referring a catalogue book and then finding out what era it is from. But I guess that is the fun bit of having mysterious coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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