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CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
Link is to an auction of a silver bar marked with the old Soviet logo and with Russian writting. Never heard of this from them before. Could this be legit or just someone screwing around with some silver?

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  • secondrepublicsecondrepublic Posts: 2,619 ✭✭✭
    Looks odd, especially the first photo.
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  • mkman123mkman123 Posts: 6,849 ✭✭✭✭
    looks like something someone made for fun. Been seeing a lot of stuff on ebay lately that looks homemade but being passed off as old
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  • renman95renman95 Posts: 7,037 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Comrade Renski say be careful... .9994 pureski.image
  • tincuptincup Posts: 5,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Enlarge the first pic, and it shows how crudely done the bar is. Definitely a homemade item. Buy at your own risk.
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  • Kinda neat looking, I'd pay $75 for one
    Its all relative
  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This thing is a fake, I speak Russian as a second language - and the characters where it should be Russian cyrillic are actually reverse Roman characters. All USSR bullion was in grammes, or kilogrammes, never Ounces except for silver commemorative rounds. The ikratka, or I in Russian on this piece which looks like a reverse N in Roman alphabet is actually made with an N, and not an ikratka.

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  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,899 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I like the Russian Ballerinas, and this doesn't begin to approach the aesthetics of that coin.

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  • << <i>This thing is a fake, I speak Russian as a second language - and the characters where it should be Russian cyrillic are actually reverse Roman characters. All USSR bullion was in grammes, or kilogrammes, never Ounces except for silver commemorative rounds. The ikratka, or I in Russian on this piece which looks like a reverse N in Roman alphabet is actually made with an N, and not an ikratka.

    Edited to add image. >>



    I still like it and would pay $75 for it, as long as its silver.
    Its all relative
  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,050 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>as long as its silver. >>

    That's the thing though, how can you be sure?
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082
    Why would anyone even “think” that hunk of scrap contained silver? The seller lied about the text on the bar and presumably everything else. Maybe his next offering will add “St. Petersburg Mint” to the fake to make you think it was pre-revolutionary, too.
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,231 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Maybe his next offering will add “St. Petersburg Mint” to the fake to make you think it was pre-revolutionary, too. >>



    If they did, they would probably still keep the hammer and sickle to make the bar appeal to the widest audience..image

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,050 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>Maybe his next offering will add “St. Petersburg Mint” to the fake to make you think it was pre-revolutionary, too. >>



    If they did, they would probably still keep the hammer and sickle to make the bar appeal to the widest audience..image >>

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  • IGWTIGWT Posts: 4,975
    I'm pretty sure that's the immediate post-revolutionary bar that Yuri gave to Lara.
  • halfhunterhalfhunter Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I like the Russian Ballerinas, and this doesn't begin to approach the aesthetics of that coin.

    PT Barnum said it, and it is true - one is born every minute. Isn't capitalism great!image >>



    Love the Ballerinas! Kind'a hard to find though.

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