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 ACCEPT Russian Roulette LP GREEK COPY GERMAN METAL RAGE CD UDO SHIR RARE $9.99 Time Remaining: 12h 50m |
 QUEEN FUNNY HOW LOVE IS YELLOW RUSSIAN FLEXI LIMITED VERY RARE $1.56 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 1d 17h 25m |
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 Marisol super rare Russian blue flexi ep on Melodiya Spanish Cancion $14.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 36m |
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 Greg Bonham Sings rare blue flexi ep on Melodiya unusual Oz Russian $9.99 Time Remaining: 1d 19h 37m |
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 FOSTBRAEDUR MALE CHOIR from ICELAND 7EP rare Russian Latvian press FSTBRUR $7.50 Time Remaining: 2d 6h 15m |
 AUGUST DEMON PIONEERS OF RUSSIAN METAL Hard Heavy Power Avgust LP RARE $7.99 Time Remaining: 1d 17h 2m Buy It Now for only: $7.99 |
 Vladimir Vysotsky LP Russian New old stock RARE $15.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 12h 56m |
 Vladimir Vysotsky LP Russian New old stock RARE $15.00 (1 Bid) Time Remaining: 2d 12h 56m |
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 Gubaidulina Seven Last Words LP Russian Classical RARE New old stock $15.00 Time Remaining: 2d 12h 56m |
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 Bruce Springsteen Corn in the USSR II Russian LP 1985 2 LP Set Rare Not TMOQ $19.99 Time Remaining: 2d 15h 41m |
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 Rare Early Russian Jewish 78 RPM 10 YIDDISH $14.99 Time Remaining: 12d 18h 38m Buy It Now for only: $14.99 |
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 Beethoven Symphony 4 Furtwangler Russian press Aprel Berlin 1943 Rare NR $49.99 Time Remaining: 4d 2h 33m |
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 Grand Funk Railroad Closer To Home LP Russian Rock RARE New old stock $15.00 Time Remaining: 4d 6h 22m |
 Hellraiser Well Bury You LP Russian Trash Metal RARE New old stock $20.00 Time Remaining: 4d 6h 22m |
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 George Benson This Masquerade LP Russian RARE Jazz New old stock $15.00 Time Remaining: 4d 6h 22m |
 STEPHANE GRAPPELLI L SUBRAMANIAM BESEDBI RARE RUSSIAN LP VINYL $20.00 Time Remaining: 9d 16h 46m Buy It Now for only: $20.00 |
 LED ZEPPELIN I RARE RUSSIAN PRESSING FREE SHIPPING $24.90 Time Remaining: 4d 16h 12m Buy It Now for only: $35.90 |
 ULTRA RARE RUSSIAN Double LP The Beatles Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts + Revolver $39.99 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 38m |
 10 Parlophon RUSSIAN Nadeshda PLEWITZKAJA 78 RPM Rare $89.00 Time Remaining: 6d 14h 11m Buy It Now for only: $89.00 |
 The Beatles Rubber Soul Russian VERY RARE VINTAGE LP NEARMINT RECORD 1991 $19.99 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 39m |
 The Beatles Help Russian VERY RARE VINTAGE LP RECORD 1991 EXCELLENT+ $14.99 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 44m |
 Rare Beatles Sgt Pepper Revolver Album Vinyl 33 LP Russian NEW $48.00 Time Remaining: 5d 14h 26m Buy It Now for only: $48.00 |
 VERY RARE Underground Russian pressing The Beatles LP Abbey Road Record 1991 $16.99 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 49m |
 rare russian USSR 8 78 RPM nikolai nikitzki pusledny izvoscikh $15.00 Time Remaining: 5d 8h 20m Buy It Now for only: $15.00 |
 RARE Russian pressing LP The Beatles Let It Be 1992 Vintage Record EX Condition $18.99 Time Remaining: 4d 18h 49m |
 ALLEGRO SPHINX LEVINOVSKY JAZZ LP RUSSIAN VERY RARE $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 36m |
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 ANGELS and DEMONS LP HARD HEAVY RUSSIAN VERY Rare $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 36m |
 BEATLES BLUE FLEXI RUSSIAN PRESS RARE $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 37m |
 Unpublished Songs of RUSSIAN Bards MEGA RARE ISRAEL ONLY LP VYSOTSKY GALICH $170.00 Time Remaining: 20d 10h 32m Buy It Now for only: $170.00 |
 Bril Igor Morning of the Earth ULTRA RARE JAZZ RUSSIAN $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 38m |
 David Azarian Trio RUSSIAN JAZZ LP RARE $62.85 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 39m |
 GIDON KREMER Tschaikowsky Violin Konzert RARE German Russian VIOLIN Stereo $9.00 Time Remaining: 22d 18h 9m Buy It Now for only: $9.00 |
 EVM heavy hard RUSSIAN HELLO MADHOUSE Rare LP $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 41m |
 Rare Italo 12 Sexy Picture LP Cicciolina Muscolo Rosso Russians Sting Cover $120.00 Time Remaining: 7d 15h 21m Buy It Now for only: $120.00 |
 FREESTYLE RUSSIAN DISCO POP KAZACHENKO RARE LP $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 41m |
 GALAXY GALAKTIKA GALACTIC HARD POWER RUSSIAN VERY Rare $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 42m |
 KATE BUSH The Red Shoes EXTREMELY RARE diff Russian PRESS LP MINT $100.00 Time Remaining: 26d 3h 9m Buy It Now for only: $100.00 |
 GUY BEART LP MEGA RARE RUSSIAN PRESS $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 43m |
 HOLOSTOY VISTREL RUSSIAN TRASH DEATH VERY RARE LP $47.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 44m |
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 JIMI PERFECT HARD HEAVY RUSSIAN LP VERY Rare $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 46m |
 PET SHOP BOYS BEHAVIOUR DIFF RUSSIAN ORIG RARE PRESS LP $14.99 Time Remaining: 19d 5h 45m Buy It Now for only: $14.99 |
 Jose Velez RUSSIAN PRESS EP RARE $17.27 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 46m |
 KALINOV MOST UZAREN ULTRA RARE PROG RUSSIAN LP $47.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 47m |
 JOY DIVISION CLOSER DIFF EXTREMELY RARE LP RUSSIAN MINT $14.00 Time Remaining: 22d 6h 45m Buy It Now for only: $14.00 |
 Kurazh HARD HEAVY RUSSIAN LP VERY Rare Kolchugin $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 48m |
 LOS ANGELES SPAIN RUSSIAN PRESS RARE $12.56 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 50m |
 GLORY DANGER UNIQUE RARE DIFF LP Russian MINT $9.91 Time Remaining: 19d 5h 44m Buy It Now for only: $9.91 |
 MAGNET MAGNIT SYMPHO ROCK RUSSIAN DIES IRAE Rare LP $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 50m |
 BOBBY CHARLES CLEAN WATER BLUES DIFF RUSSIAN Extremely RARE LP MINT $14.99 Time Remaining: 20d 12h 1m Buy It Now for only: $14.99 |
 MARISOL RUSSIAN PRESS LP RARE $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 50m |
 Orpheus Russian GROOVE PSYCH FUNK LP RUS RARE Mazitov $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 54m |
 GEORGE MICHAEL SAME DIFF VOL1 VOL2 DOUBLE LP RUSSIAN RARE PRESS $19.99 Time Remaining: 2d 13h 12m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 PHANTASM Keeper Of Death BENEDICTION RUSSIAN LP RARE $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 54m |
 RED SQUARE KRASNAYA EX GALAXY HARD RUSSIAN LP Rare $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 55m |
 Rare Unique Melodiya Company Record Songs in Russian Czech $49.50 Time Remaining: 2d 12h 38m Buy It Now for only: $49.50 |
 RODMIR PERFECT HARD GLAM RUSSIAN LP VERY Rare $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 55m |
 ROYAL KNIGHTS Teruko OOBA RUSSIAN RED LP ULTRA RARE $94.28 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 56m |
 PETER LESCENCO SINGS RUSSIAN FOLK SONGS ULTRA RARE GREECE ONLY 10 LP $45.00 Time Remaining: 28d 15h 5m Buy It Now for only: $45.00 |
 ROYAL KNIGHTS JAPAN BAND RUSSIAN LP RARE $17.27 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 56m |
 THE WINANS RETURN DIFF RARE LP RUSSIAN UNIQUE $9.91 Time Remaining: 19d 5h 41m Buy It Now for only: $9.91 |
 RUSSIAN TENOR LEGEND SOLOMON KHROMCHENKO MEGA RARE DOUB $47.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 56m |
 STADION WIND OF CHANGE SYMPHO ROCK RUSSIAN Rare LP $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 58m |
 DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK RARE RUSSIAN PRESSED VINYL LPLAST EVER EX EX STOCK NOW $17.21 Time Remaining: 29d 17h 43m Buy It Now for only: $17.21 |
 SWEET BLUE FLEXI RUSSIAN PRESS RARE $25.13 Time Remaining: 4d 20h 58m |
 VIZIT DEMARSH PERFECT RUSSIAN HARD Rock LP ULTRA RARE $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 1m |
 Nautilus Pompilius Bigade S LP rare russian soviet hard rock Melodyia 1988 $19.99 Time Remaining: 28d 20h 5m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 VOYAGE FLY AWAY RUSSIAN PRESS ULTRA RARE $18.84 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 2m |
 MICHAEL JACKSON DANGEROUS unique DIFF 2 LP RUSSIAN press MINT UNPLAYED RARE $49.99 Time Remaining: 14d 7h 19m Buy It Now for only: $49.99 |
 Wild Rose HARD HEAVY RUSSIAN LP FEMALE RARE $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 2m |
 ZVUKI MU RUSSIAN MEGA RARE MAMONOV LP $31.42 Time Remaining: 4d 21h 3m |
 rare russian opera vocal GRISHKO 2 LPs $29.99 Time Remaining: 4d 5h 7m Buy It Now for only: $29.99 |
 LP BOB DYLAN SLOW TRAIN COMING RUSSIAN IPORT RECORDS 1991 RARE $9.72 Time Remaining: 5d 22m |
 Russian audio magazine KRUGOZOR 1964 RARE RARE RARE $59.99 Time Remaining: 6d 17m |
 LP VLADIMIR VYSOTSKY VISSOTSKI VISOTSKY with Marina Vlady RARE PRESS RUSSIAN $19.99 Time Remaining: 20d 16h 45m Buy It Now for only: $19.99 |
 Beatles Taste Of Honey Rare Russian EMI LP $7.99 Time Remaining: 6d 15h 27m |
Russian Coins Phenomenon
Reading latest news you could see titles like “Sale of Russian Ruble Paves the Way in Goldberg Coins Pre Long Beach Auction”, “Russian Ruble (1714/3 PCGS EF-45) fetching $46,800” and going through Russian Coin forums, you will see topics, such as “Russian Coins Prices are MAD” and “This hobby is becoming too expensive”.
Russian Coin market has exploded this year! The prices for most quality Imperial Russian Coins (pre 1917) has grown 100% and keep going up. Coin Dealers are confused and if you call most of them you will hear the same answer: “We don’t have any Russian Coins in the inventory right now. Russian Coin Market is hot.” So, who is buying Russian Coins and how it can be possible for the coins prices to grow 100% in just 1 year?
We believe, to understand what happened you will need to go back in the history. Russia went through very difficult times in 20th century; people struggled to feed their families and had little interest in expensive hobbies, such as collecting coins. A lot of silver and gold coins were melted down or converted to jewelry. We know how many Russians coins were minted, but no one knows how many coins survived through all these years of weak economy. Even now all Imperial Russian Coins can not be exported from Russia, so there circulation of such coins outside of Russia is limited to Russian coins smuggled illegally or Russian coins kept by generations of Russian immigrants.
You could see that demand for Russian coins started to grow 5 years ago when Russian economy just started to recover. It’s easy to conclude that the recent growth in Russian coin prices is related to booming Russian economy. In fact, if you compare results of coin auctions in Russia with Russian coin auctions outside of Russia, prices for the same Russian coins outside of Russia are 10-30% below than inside of Russia! The demand is coming from Russia itself where more and more people find investing in coins to be very rewarding. Russian coins on European and North American auctions are bought through proxies and coming back to Russia and western Russian coins inventories, which were not very good from the beginning are depleting. There is a huge demand, which drives the prices up and with quality Russian coins going to private collectors and investors you can find that some rare coins sold in the auction in January are selling for twice as much in June. This is unbelievable 100% Return on Investment in 5 months!!! And, people were saying stock market brings highest returns. The one million dollar question is for how long the prices for Russian Coins can growth and would this market overheat and crash one day.
We know that every market has its ups and downs and 100% growth is not sustainable in the long term. From the other hand, if we compare coin prices for British and American coins to Russian coins, we can still see that rare Russian coins are still selling for much less than British or American coins of such rarity. For the largest country in the world with, such an interesting history, Russian coin market is still in the developing stages and we believe it will be booming while Russian economy is doing well and a lot of experts suggest that Russia might finally have a bright future.
If you are interested in taking a part of this rally and have little or no knowledge on Russian coins, following are some suggestions, which you will need to consider. As in any growing market there are people, who are trying to exploit and profit from it in a fast way. There are more and more fakes of Russian coins, which are coming to the market, which are worthless, but can be sold to inexperienced collectors or investors for thousands of dollars. People looking for bargains are ending up buying these fakes without realizing that they were cheated. Our advise it to stick to the coin dealers, who specialize in Russian coins, there are still some, such as www.MyCoinDealer.com, which have quality Russian coins in the inventory. Avoid auction sites, such as Ebay, where (don’t be surprised) a lot of Russian coins sold as original will end up to be copies! Buy coins certified by NGC, ANACS or PCGS. Apart from certifying that coin is genuine, certified Russian coins are graded according world standards. When you buy “raw” (uncertified) Russian coins, which is a high possibility they are overgraded or can end up to be cleaned or worse - fakes. You pay a premium on certified coins, but it’s worth it. The fact is that even experts can’t tell if the coin is fake by looking at the picture and without certified agencies, coin market would be doomed. Try to do some research to learn about coin grades, clean coins, coin toning and coin varieties, we suggest you to visit http://www.mycoincollecting.com/ to read more information on these topics. For example, Liberty Gold Dollar of 1879 would cost you around $350 in (AU) About Uncirculated grade and $7000 in Uncirculated MS-67 grade and if you haven’t seen a lot of these coins you won’t even tell the difference between the 2. Our advice, that you should buy VF-30 – XF-45 1700-1810 Russian coins and AU or MS-65 1810-1917 Russian coins. These experienced the highest market value growth in the recent years and we believe will keep going up. Russian Gold Coins and Platinum Russian Coins were appreciating fast because of the recent growth in Gold prices, so if you believe the price for gold is going up and can afford such coins, you might find to look at Russian Gold Coins a bit closely.
To summarize, Russian Coin market is still maturing and although 100% increase in price in 1 year seems crazy, it can be explained that Russian coins were overlooked in the past and were very cheap before and just start to get appreciation and demand they deserve in the recent years.
About the Author
Alex Kotov is a member of American Numismatic Association.
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