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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Krasnaya Vityaz, post: 130153, member: 1791&quot;]Not a whole long time ago it was illegal to own gold in Russia/USSR.&nbsp; It was still possible to own it, and smart people did.&nbsp; In the late 1980&#039;s and early 1990&#039;s it was quite easy to walk down a street and have several people ask you to sell them gold, or they would offer to sell you gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most common coins available were the Nikolai II 5 rubles, but occasionally you could buy the 10 rubles or very rarely the 1923 Soviet Chervonetz coins.&nbsp; While the paper money lost value twice completely in the last 16 years gold really either kept it&#039;s relative value or appreciated later on by comparison.&nbsp; Even early and in the middle 1990&#039;s it technically became legal to own and collect coins, but still did not stop Ivan the administrator from causing you problems with it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This all may sound strange in the USA, but not a whole long time ago, about 30 years ago this was the same scenario there.&nbsp; It was only legal to own &quot;collectible gold&quot; and not bullion.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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