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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2712244, member: 12789&quot;]It was a bit of an anachronistic issue when you think about it.&nbsp; It had RSFSR like it was a restrike but a modern date.&nbsp; They were only for sale for export, ie capitalist collectors.&nbsp; Up into the mid 1990s they traded at a slight discount vs. gold value because they were from the USSR.&nbsp; Then Russians started collecting them and bringing them back, now they trade at a slight premium and are not as easy to find.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mezhnumismatika was a seller of these through the Bank of Foreign Trade of the USSR into the early 1990s, along with the gold medals ie 17 grammes etc.&nbsp; I only have the Tolstoy medal so far, but I would like to find a nice Valentina Tereshkova medal but they are usually hairlined from cleanings.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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