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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2993316, member: 4373&quot;]I could be very very wrong at the end of the day but I&#039;m dead certain this is consistent of what genuine examples look like. </p><p><br /></p><p>At one stage about two decades ago, Chinese silver coins were sold as melt value, whether you believe it or not. It would not be a surprise that some little genuine stash appear out of nowhere once in a blue moon. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now that is what makes hunting coins in a &#039;junk box&#039; exciting - you never know what is in them. There is this one Russian copper junk lot that I bought off ebay and sorted a long time ago. This is something that I remember clearly. At first sight when I opened the box, it looked like a pile of corroded / poor grade coins and I couldn&#039;t figure out why I wanted to pay so much for. The photos did show that the coins were in really sorry state. Bent, corroded, scratched, damaged etc - you name it, they were all there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Two weeks after sorting and lamenting that I paid way too much for the lot and slowly got rid of the junk, I was still trying to identify years on some coins. Turns out I didn&#039;t even realize the importance of one coin. Just one coin. That coin would have easily paid for the whole lot if I choose to sell it and I still get change. While there is no mintage figure and no studies to suggest the survival rate of it, I have not seen more than 10 examples of it online. I suspect there would not be more than 1000 left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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