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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2501284, member: 12789&quot;]It is a real set, and I believe they were sold by Paramount coins in the run up to the Olympics in 1980.&nbsp; Then the USA and several other western nations boycotted the Olympics and you couldn&#039;t give these things away.&nbsp; Coin collecting was frowned upon in the USSR so there was no interest there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that collecting is encouraged in Russia there is a lot of demand for these sets from the domestic market, which has driven the price up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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