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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 436647, member: 68&quot;]Congratulations.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have a pretty good idea how tough some of these coins really are.&nbsp; I was working on the set back in the days that there was no competition and couldn&#039;t make a lot of headway on it.&nbsp; The Soviet government discouraged coin collecting altogether and the few collectors that existed hated Soviet era coinage and especially modern (post-&#039;61).&nbsp; If memory serves there were only about 100 people in the Moscow coin club and my source claimed they pretty much all hated moderns.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mint sets are said to have recieved extremely good distribution world wide with relatively few staying in the home market.&nbsp; I suspect this means a lot went to dignitaries in satellite countries.&nbsp; Some of the mint sets were poorly packaged and won&#039;t have survived but they used a lot of different types of packaging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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