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1980 Russian olympic medals
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I was looking for some help identifying these Russian coins/medals. It looks like one set is uncirculated, the other set proof. I also believe they are 80-90% silver. The reverses have the same design, other than the amount 5 or 10 Ruble(?). The COA's are in French and English. Any help and/or history would be greatly appreciated.
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According to the Standard Catalog, there were 14 5 Ruble and 14 10 Ruble coins issued for the 1980 Olympics. All are 90% silver. The 5 Rubles contain .4823 oz. and the 10 Rubles .9635 oz. They give the prices as $16.50 each for the 5s, same price for proof and uncirculated and $30.00 for the Proof 10s and $35 for the unc. 10s.
I've got the whole 28 coin set in a reddish/maroon case .. maybe the case came when you bought each of the 5 series of the coins. I picked up my set for free from a friend for helping him offload lots of misc foreign silver. I think that the US didn't go to the '80 Olympics, so a good number of buyers for the set essentially got left out or desire/demand was greatly diminished
Thank you for the help! In researching, I found similar ones, but not the same events and packaging.
Although they are beautiful Coins it may be that mintage is so great that they trade close to bullion price
Even during the strongest point of the Russian market they were hard to get much over melt for. I even let Heritage auction my Gold and Platinum Olympic sets and the net to me was around spot.