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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3033178, member: 10461"][USER=40017]@PaddyB[/USER]- you must have a pretty old Krause indeed! <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/russia-5-kopeks-c-59.3-1763-1796-cuid-1095100-duid-1535262" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/price-guide/world/russia-5-kopeks-c-59.3-1763-1796-cuid-1095100-duid-1535262" rel="nofollow">Here's the "current" Krause data on the NGC page</a>. Says $25 in Fine, which is about where I'd grade this one, personally.  In my experience buying those in bulk pick bins at shows 10-15 years ago, I was paying about $20, so that seems about right to me. This coin has somewhat funky color and flan flaws, but that's pretty much par for the course on these, so I'd say it falls into the average range in terms of quality.  It's got "character".  Many of them do. These are cool coins.  I always affectionately referred to them as "whopper coppers", for reasons that will be obvious to anyone who's ever held one in hand and felt the sheer heft of it. If you're ever in a David-and-Goliath situation, armed with nothing but a slingshot and your Russian 5-kopeck piece, that coin would make pretty deadly slingshot ammunition- you'd knock your giant opponent out cold.  <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]