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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Krasnaya Vityaz, post: 52601, member: 1791&quot;]Not my find unfortunately, but my daughter&#039;s.&nbsp; She went through a box of coins which were all loose and priced at about $10 each, they were mostly 18th century Russian 5 Kopeks pieces, nothing bad, all worth at least what seller was asking.&nbsp; So she sorts through all of them, I am thinking if she wants anything it will probably be some large size 5 Kopek piece from the reign of Ekaterina II, but she pulls out something and says to the seller &quot;I want this one&quot;.&nbsp; On first site I thought she pulled out something completely worn out like a old 2 Kopeks coin, so I ask her to let me see it.&nbsp; She kind of hesitated like she was going to buy it no matter what I said, but then she handed it to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was vaguely familiar to me, something I wanted too, a 1773 Moldava-Wallachiya 2 Para - 3 Kopeks coin from when the Russian Empire invaded the Ottoman Empire and annexed what they had conquered before shortly thereafter giving it back to Ottoman Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>I knew it was worth far more than seller was asking for it, so I let her buy it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now the interesting part.&nbsp; This coin was minted very close to where she was born.&nbsp; It was almost unusual that she would pick out a coin that was not large, not eye catching, and she seemed to have no idea what it was, just that it was &quot;cool&quot;.&nbsp; On looking it up in the catalog we determined that it is worth about US$50.00 - it is her best find so far, and one near and dear since it is from the batkivshyniya.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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