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Message:: [QUOTE="Rhino89, post: 1178485, member: 21773"]Russian Revolution I'll go first, hopefully get this rolling and give you guys an idea: About a year ago a guy contacted me about some Russian 100 and 500 Rouble banknotes he had from 1912. He sent me a photo of a few (all very very crisp, barely any folding), and said that there were about 60-something of them. He didn't know much about them, but said it seemed they were undisturbed for a while and were packed together. I figured they looked good, seemed pretty cheap price-wise, so I bought them all... When I received it, the notes were wrapped in some aging paper and had a letter from 1917 attached with them. The letter was written by an Ohio bank that handled international deposits/withdrawals of some sort mainly between Russia and the US, and were a receipt that a "Mr. _______" had withdrawn 12,000+ roubles legitimately" and that they were his posession, and then some exchange rates at the bottom. The notes were as crisp as the day they were printed, just worn around the edges from being wrapped in the paper. And about 1/3 of the 500 Ruble notes had the rarest signature for this series of notes, which rarely appears on the market nowadays. Someone was traveling between the US and Russia right around the Revolution in 1917, the most turbulent time in Russian history, and for some reason these notes just stayed wrapped for almost 100 years in this package, with the letter and everything.[/QUOTE]