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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 437106, member: 4373&quot;]Thanks everyone <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>kuhli, I&#039;ll send you a pm of a list of coins of what I am looking for. It&#039;s quite a fair bit. </p><p><br /></p><p>cladking, I&#039;m quite puzzled over how these coins were distributed. I&#039;ll put the discussion of the commemorative coins aside as it complicates a lot of matter - for now, I&#039;ll just discuss about the regular coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>The main distributor as far as I am aware is Mezhnumizmatika. They only had access to the US market in 1973 and hence mint sets after 1973 are more plentiful than the earlier ones. Anything before 1973 can be said to be relatively scarce except the 1967 commemorative set and mintsets of 1967, 68 and 69 which are plentiful. </p><p><br /></p><p>For instance, the rarest out of all mintset is the 1970 which I have seen 10 sets sold single handily from a single seller in the UK. There also disputes of how some of these coins were packed. I reckon in the early days most of them went to Europe where Mezhnumizmatika had a foothold probably in East Germany and they got spread slowly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most regular coins I know were either packed in cellophone packaging or in hard plastic cases. Examples can be seen here: <a href="http://www.gxseries.com/numis/sovietset/sovietset.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gxseries.com/numis/sovietset/sovietset.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gxseries.com/numis/sovietset/sovietset.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of research to do but I just don&#039;t have enough time <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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