1854 5 kopek

Rybaer

Hello everyone. I came across a small lot of Russian kopeks. All silver 5 kopeks, 1 1854, 13 1892, 1 1888,1 1891, 1 1899 1 1897, and 2 1905. My question is are they worth anything? Would it be worth the money to have them graded? I'm fairly new at coin collecting and just don't know the best place to get info on this.

TheRaven

Those look nice.

Not sure on the value of them however.

asheland

TwoKopeiki

Not really my area, but I have seen these often in gem grades (65-67) selling for around 100-150 bucks certified, which tells me they are pretty common.

Hope someone else can chime in. Have you tried posting your question on cointalk? I believe there are a few russian collectors hanging out there.

ajaan

If you are interested in selling them let me know.

SaorAlba

They are actually fairly common coins - especially the later dates. Unless you have one that is spectacular looking they are not worth having graded. In the early 1990s I was getting all sorts of BU late Tsarist era coins over in Russia for a pittance. They sat around in banks during WWI, then the Revolution happened and they were never circulated. In fact they may very well have sat in vaults up into the 1990s. The USSR government bureaucracy was like that - holding on to stuff like the Baltic countries coinage from the 1920s-1940 that they seized when they invaded and just putting it in vaults. Then they sold it off starting in the 1980s early 1990s when the STHTF in the USSR.