Current Coins of the Republic of Armenia Set

DeutscherGeist

I picked this up during one of my many travels to Armenia. I did not want some tourist junk, so I thought a mint issue of current coins would be a cool memento.
As I look through the coins, I see dates of 1994, 2003 and 2004. Some coins look to have a haze, some have small dents. I am now suspecting that this could have been a "homemade" deal. I did get this at a flea market, so anything is possible.

Anyway, I put it up here to get feedback on it. 300 Armenian Drams is $1 and that fluctuates. I have it written down somewhere, but IIRC, I spent about 6000 ADM on this set ($20). I got the initial Euro coin sets when they first came out for about $10 a set (I was in Germany when the Euro was introduced the first year, so I have nice numismatic stuff from that time--no questionable quality or authenticity either).

In the grand scheme of things, $20 does not break a person even if this coin set proves to be only worth its face value. It will be an interesting conversation piece nonetheless. There isn't a coin collector out there that did not buy a dud sometime in their lifetime.

SaorAlba

The earliest coins, like those made in Ukraine, were often made in metal stamping plants - thus the quality issues. The Ukraine mint started out in Lugans'k Cartridge Factory, which you can guess what their main production was.