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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 1135303, member: 68&quot;]Krause undervalues the Swiss and Soviet era coinage.&nbsp; The market undervalues these as well so expect to have to pay far over catalog to actually obtain good coins. I understand that some of the Soviet mint sets that Krause lists at $35 actually bring $200 in Russia and Krause listed these much lower just a couple years ago.&nbsp; They&#039;ve been raising the modern Swiss prices as well and aren&#039;t quite so far behind the markets here.&nbsp; Modern Swiss is probably a steal.&nbsp; I suspect most of these are far scarcer than the old silver coins and they go for a tiny fraction of the price.&nbsp; Pick up the mint sets when you can; quality is astounding and sometimes they sell pretty cheap.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Soviet mint sets (especially &#039;61 to &#039;91) also have astounding quality.&nbsp; Older Soviet materil is fairly common but uncirculated examples can be pretty tough.&nbsp; The Soviet government strongly discouraged coin collecting and the few who had any interest were primarily interested in old czarist coinage and foreign coins.&nbsp; A lot of the old circulated Soviet coins survived but it looks like little of the modern did.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>It takes time for markets to determine what&#039;s rare and what&#039;s common and this process is just starting for most moderns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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