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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cladking, post: 208809, member: 68&quot;]I wasn&#039;t aware these had gone up so much.&nbsp; Thanks for the info.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sets like this were available all through the 80&#039;s and &#039;90&#039;s for literally a dollar or two.&nbsp; There weren&#039;t many around but there was simply no demand.&nbsp; It was a similar situation in Russia according to people I talked to.&nbsp; The Soviet government even worked to discourage collecting up until &#039;91.&nbsp; They considered it a waste of time and resources.&nbsp; Those who did collect were almost solely interested in the old imperial Russian coinage to the exclusion of all else, especially recent dates.&nbsp; These coins simply weren&#039;t saved just like almost every other world coin made since 1950.&nbsp; The few people who were interested usually busted up the sets to put the coins in a collection.&nbsp; Attrition on both the coins and the sets is very high since so many were acquired so cheaply.&nbsp; Low prices cause the coins to be treated differently.&nbsp; Many people would simply bust the set up for a single coin and throw the rest of the set in poundage.&nbsp; These are bulky sets so very few would ever be found in safety deposit boxes, instead they will be found corroded in moldy closets or flooded in basements.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Even at a couple hundred dollars these coins are probably underpriced in comparison to an old czarist silver coin.&nbsp; There simply is still very little demand for the newer coins but this small demand will find in many cases that there is no supply.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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