This is the remains of a formally beautiful coin: And this is the original: http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/Base_of_memorable_coins/coins.asp?cat_num=5612-0001 Mind you, when it was first released, it was sold for over one thousand dollar back then.
Sad. I suppose you did not do that yourself. Well, I have a €1 coin with the ring and the pill taken apart, but that has never been rare or precious. Christian
It's not a common coin. The inner ring is silver and outer ring is gold. With a mintage of just 5000 and the price of the coin is sold higher than bullion value, I'm not too sure what happened - must be a dealer that is desperate for money and sold it for melt value. Thought the silver would be worth some money... - least I bought the inner core for melt. But this, this is ridicious!
I think it is the other way around. The silver center survived. I suspect the gold ring was sold for its gold content first.
