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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;7Jags, post: 8260594, member: 78719&quot;]Below are pictures (bad quality) of the very first examples of these that I&#039;ve seen, and likely rare. There is a bit of an interesting story:</p><p>These had been for sale for some time at an exorbitant price that I was not willing to pay. However, after about 3+ months of negotiating we came to a price higher than I wanted to pay but more reasonable. I confess I did not look at the address of the seller and had sent out payment; I was wondering where my order was and double checked only to see he was located in Kyiv, UKRAINE! It turned out he had acknowledged the sale on 24 February which was the day the Russians attacked.</p><p>Based on subsequent news I figured that I might be out my money but seller responded to my email and saw bided my time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, today this came in the mail:</p><p><span style="color: #ff4d4d">edited</span></p><p><br /></p><p>Inside and undamaged were my two coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1456806[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1456807[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins are slightly grungy being of copper nickel but will restore surfaces and picture them again.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is interesting is that they are fully (U) prooflike uncirculated coins and are superior to the few others of other dates I have seen - they appear much as (U) coins in the Franklin Mint specimen mint sets &amp; I had noted Krause lists 1977 and 1978 specimen sets for this mint so there is some possibility that these were once part of a set.</p><p>I also have smaller denomination 1978 coins of (U) quality but these are much more crudely struck &amp; are packaged in mixed year sets packaged by the Guyana Central Bank and in the case of dollar coins also occasionally singly.</p><p>Regardless they must be quite rare as I have not seen any before and was quite an adventure they faced getting out of that poor country.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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