Coins of the island of Svalbard
A little story of a small place. Svalbard is a set of islands that are…

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The history of coinage of antique coins
After the minting of the first coins was mastered, it is necessary to somehow simplify…

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Coin cleaning rules
No matter what metal coins are made of, there are a number of general rules…

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A set of jubilee coins dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812
Nothing can so please the present coin collector, as a new coin in its collection,…

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really a big rarity

What is now in price on the numismatic market

The dollar is falling, and the ruble is growing stronger. Especially – old. Antique coins are sold at auctions for “big money”. So, at the Gelos auction before the new year, for five gold rubles of Alexander III, coinage in 1888 was paid 150 thousand, and for a silver dime of 1741 of unique preservation – 90 thousand rubles. A set of two trial kopecks in 1871 of a copper-nickel alloy with a portrait of Alexander I was bought for 120 thousand rubles.
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Coins of the era of silver crisis
On the territory of the Muslim East, as well as in medieval Europe, coins were…

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The ruble of Emperor Constantine I from the Romanov dynasty
The most important mystery of this coin is that there has never been such an…

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Coins of Queen Victoria and the dynasty of her court medalists
On January 2, 1901, at the turn of the two greatest in the history of…

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