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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2501418, member: 12789&quot;]Back in 1980 coin collecting really wasn&#039;t tolerated in the USSR as it was seen as capitalistic &quot;hoarding&quot;, later in the 1980s Goznak(USSR, then Russian mint) started producing coins for domestic collectors and occasional circulation.&nbsp; Some of the coins, like the one for the Armenian earthquake in 1988 were used as fundraisers.</p><p><br /></p><p>One curious feature of leaving the USSR back then was that you were required to exchange all your Soviet currency back into your western currency.&nbsp; Aside from what I smuggled out for my collection I did turn in about 50 rubles and instead of getting Deutschmarks or dollars got a pile of 10 brand new 5 ruble commemorative coins in cupronickel and was told I was good to take them out since they were coins and souvenirs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The other day I found an old pricelist I received from &quot;Mezhnumizmatika&quot; in Moscow, was interesting to see all the prices in dollars and the prices were high.&nbsp; They were selling early USSR coinage and some of the Baltic states coinages from before 1940 for prices that even now are a rip off.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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