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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 4224603, member: 42034&quot;]Actually they only end up temporarily in a museum.&nbsp; From museum acquisition several things happen.</p><p>1) Coins not being popular hand-on exhibits these days, they&#039;re de-acquisitioned to make room &amp; $ available for an interactive display where children can dig up plastic dinosaur bones in a Jurassic pit filled with coarse paving sand.</p><p>2) The coins end up in the basement of the museum where eventually they end in in some politican&#039;s footlocker which is filled to the brim with gold coins.</p><p>3) The coins end up at the museum and are stolen and melted as the thieves don&#039;t want to have to deal with &quot;hot museum coins&quot;. This actually happened to about 2,000 Roman gold medallions stolen out of a museum in Paris I believe it was.&nbsp; All(?) were melted.</p><p>4) Coins end up in the museum and end up in some official&#039;s pocket and are auctioned in the US at major sales with &quot;semi-official&quot; sanction.&nbsp; It&#039;s my guess that this is what&#039;s happened with innumerable Russian roubles (silver) since the fall of the USSR.&nbsp; However, I&#039;m not a Russian collector so it&#039;d be good to hear from someone as to where all those rare roubles since around 2000 are comming from.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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