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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1070208, member: 68&quot;]Russian coinage was extremely lightly saved and the mint sets were widely dispersed and suffered very high attrition.&nbsp; Dealers often cut these&nbsp; sets up and threw them in poundage and the tokens from the sets are often seen for sale by token and medal dealers.&nbsp; Mintages were low enough that attrition simply left few of these around and the demand is growing.&nbsp; Imagine such a large country as Russia with just a few thousand of each of their Soviet era coins surviving in unc.&nbsp; It should be noted that the attrition on the circulated pieces is extreme since the bulk were melted down to make consumer products.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are still fairly common in worn out condition but pristine examples are elusive.&nbsp; Mint set coins were very finely made and are often mistaken for proofs. Large percentages of these were sold in the US and some were sold world wide.&nbsp; Typical unc coins just aren&#039;t seen in unc and aren&#039;t available in Russia either.&nbsp; Some of the mint sets were packaged in degradable plastic (foam rubber) that will have destroyed the coins by now.&nbsp; This mostly applies to the older sets from the &#039;60&#039;s and early &#039;70&#039;s.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe many of the Russian sets were packaged abroad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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