Spmd transcript. The rarest and most expensive coins of modern Russia - list and prices

Many investors began their journey of investing in gold by collecting expensive coins. Let's see what are the rarest Russian coins that can bring you a good income. What coins are in demand these days, and how can you make your hobby bring in money?

The rarest and most expensive coins of Russia

Let's start, perhaps, with the coins of the USSR and up to the present, coins. Before we get started, let's clarify some basic terms:

• SPMD – St. Petersburg Mint;
• MMD – Moscow Mint;
• BOMD - Without mint designation.

5 kopecks 2002 BOMD

The cost of a simple 5 kopeck coin from 2002 is very low (only 2-3 rubles). But along with them, rare 5 kopeck coins of 2002 without a mint mark were also issued. On a coin of this denomination, the mint mark is located under the horse's left hoof. Cost 2500-3500 thousand rubles.

50 kopecks 2001 MMD

This coin can easily be called a “collector’s dream.” It was not put into circulation, and no facts of sale were recorded. But it is known that the coin was minted in MMD. It is made of brass and has a characteristic yellow tint, and there are 105 corrugations on the edge. Cost 100,000 - 120,000 rubles.

1 ruble 1997 MMD

Among the 1 ruble coins from 1997, there is a fairly valuable specimen. The main difference is the wide edge, which can be either flat or with a small step. The coin was minted at the Moscow Mint Palace. Cost 4000-8000 rubles.

1 ruble 2003 SPMD

Such rubles have a very limited circulation and were minted exclusively in SPMD. There are 110 grooves on the edge; the coin is an alloy of copper and nickel, so it is not attracted by a magnet. Cost 10,000 rubles.

1 ruble 2001 MMD

Another very rare ruble. The MMD was minted in 2001 and should not have gone into circulation. But for unknown reasons, an undetermined number still fell into hands. The coin, like the previous one, has a copper-nickel alloy and is not attracted by a magnet. It can easily be confused with the ruble issued in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Cost 30,000 rubles.

2 rubles with Yu.A Gagarin 2001 BOMD

In 2001, in honor of the 40th anniversary of man's flight into space, a coin with a portrait of Yu.A Gagarin was issued. It was minted in MMD. But there are also rare specimens without the mint mark. The cost of these is 4,000 rubles.

2 rubles 2003 SPMD

Limited edition coin. Only SPMD was minted and has significant rarity. It is made of an alloy of nickel and copper (not attracted by a magnet). On the edge you can count 84 corrugations divided into 12 sections, each of which has 7 corrugations. Cost from 3,000 – 8,000 rubles.

2 rubles 2001 MMD

Officially, the 2 ruble coin of 2001 was not minted by any mint, but there are several copies (it is not known how many exactly) that have the MMD mark. Cost 50,000 rubles.

5 rubles 1999 SPMD

The most expensive and rarest coin of modern Russia. What is known is that only one copy was found, and there is confirmation of the sale and purchase transaction of this coin at a price of 250,000 rubles.

5 rubles 2003 SPMD

The most common coin with a face value of five rubles, only with the sign of the St. Petersburg Mint. Cost 6,000 rubles.

Average coin value

And now, for greater convenience, I would like to summarize the knowledge we have acquired and put it into a more convenient table.

Cost table

Auction of expensive and rare coins

If you are the happy owner of rare coins, and also do not have any personal attachment to them, then you can easily participate in various auctions and earn decent money. Below is a list of several popular online auctions.

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If in the future you want to have a collection of rare coins, then when collecting specific specimens it is also important to pay attention to the mint. Sometimes this knowledge helps to quickly determine the market value of a new product that comes into your hands. The same copy, produced by different yards, can differ in price several times.

History and modernity of Russian mints

There are only two mints operating on the territory of the modern Russian Federation. One works in Moscow, and the second in St. Petersburg. On modern coins the names are minted as "" or "". If the products are cheap, then they will simply have the letters “M” or “S-P”.

There are specimens on which no indication of origin at all. The cost of such a marriage increases significantly. The fact that usually the MMD stamp looks several times larger than the St. Petersburg stamp is alarming. In fact, there is nothing strange about this, because this is how it really is.

The first Russian mint was founded in 1534. This happened in the then capital of Moscow under Tsar John IV. In St. Petersburg, this institution was founded by Peter I in 1724. Since 1876, the mint in St. Petersburg became the only one in the country. Today it is still located on the territory of the Peter and Paul Fortress. In 1921, it was here that the minting of Soviet coins began. The Yekaterinburg Mint also operated in Russia from 1727 to 1876. At the Suzunsky copper smelter the yard operated from 1766 to 1847.

Special mint designation represents a certain company logo. It can be different in each country; there are no uniform standards. As a rule, these are abbreviations of the name of the city where the mint is located. But it can also be various graphic elements that distinguish a city or country. A coin of the same design may have different mint designations, depending on the place of minting and the year of issue. Sometimes there are coins without a designation, but these are error coins, and they immediately become rarities.

Distinctive mark of the Russian Mint

FSUE Goznak is an enterprise entrusted with the research, development and production of state signs, mainly coins and banknotes. Currently, Russian coins are minted at the Moscow and St. Petersburg mints.

How to determine the mint on Russian coins?

One of the first questions of a beginning numismatist. In fact, there is nothing complicated here. Mint mark can be in the form of individual letters or their combinations. They are usually very small and magnifying devices may be needed. To make it easier to distinguish Russian mint, I will tell you about them in more detail.

If you look at the obverse of coins in denominations of 10, 5, 2 and 1 ruble, then under the eagle’s left paw there will be a SPMD or MMD sign.

If you look at the obverse of coins in denominations of 50, 10, 5 and 1 kopeck, then under the horse’s front left hoof there will be the letter M or S-P.

Coins of previous periods also had the designations L and M.

Mint mark on some Russian coins

More details about the location and designation of the mint on coins:

If you decide to become interested in numismatics, you should carefully select items for your collection. To quickly and correctly determine the market value of a banknote, you will need knowledge about mints. The fact is that the same banknote issued by different yards can differ in price several times.

Before you start searching for an emblem, you should determine the year of manufacture. If the date could not be found, most likely, this coin was issued during the times of Tsarist Rus', and only an experienced collector can determine whether it belongs to the mint. The fact is that previously there were about thirty mints in the country.

Today the question is relevant: how to determine the mint on a coin? However, in modern Russia, unlike the times of Tsarist Rus', there are only two mints - Moscow and St. Petersburg, whose emblems are displayed on the surface of the coins.

How can I find out which mint issued a coin? On the products their names are minted in the form of monograms MMD and SPMD. The letters M and S-P are displayed on penny coins.

If the coins do not have mint emblems, they are a real collector's item, and the value of such defective items will increase significantly. As surprising as it may sound, defective items are actually valued much higher due to their rarity.

Not every novice collector knows where the mint is located. In fact, this is not such a difficult procedure. To understand which court a coin belongs to, just take a magnifying glass and carefully examine its surface. Also, some collectors use a scanner or camera.

Sometimes it is difficult for beginners to figure out how to distinguish between mints. On coins that were issued by the Moscow Mint, the inscriptions are more rounded. This is one of the main differences.

On 10-ruble coins, the mint mark is located on the obverse, immediately below the denomination. If the banknote was issued in the early 90s, then the emblem should be looked for on the front side. But on penny coins, the sign of belonging to the mint will be depicted under the front hooves of the horse on which the rider sits. In modern coins, the emblem is located on the reverse on the right side under the eagle's paw.

For those who do not know how to distinguish a mint, these features will be quite enough to independently determine the identity of the banknotes.

Hello, dear readers. In this article we will talk about how to distinguish mints by their designations on coins. Already a novice collector, looking at catalogs, sees that coins of certain years are distributed into the “MMD” and “SPMD” groups. Most limit themselves to looking at the price tags, noting that coins with “S-P” written under the horse’s hoof and “” written under the eagle’s paw are sometimes more expensive than their Moscow sisters. However, those who intend to study the issue deeper should understand that most varieties of the catalog are based on exactly how the initials of the Russian mints are located on the field of the coin relative to other elements of the design.

Designation of mints on coins of modern Russia

After the monetary reform of 1997, both mints were fully engaged in the minting of metal banknotes for cash payments. To mark penny denominations we decided to use mint initials- letters "M" and "S-P". They decided to leave the location traditional: on the right side of the lower half of the coin field. Since on kopecks with the date “1997” and later the obverse is occupied by St. George the Victorious, slaying a snake, it turned out that the letters ended up under the rearing hoof of the hero’s four-legged companion. They look quite harmonious there. Ruble denominations are no longer decorated with letters, but logos mints.

The elongated logo of the St. Petersburg Mint almost imperceptibly survived the transformation from LMD to SPMD. But the emblem of the Moscow court has evolved somewhat. In 1997, the monogram, including the three letters " ", was inscribed in an almost even circle. The emblem looked large and took up quite a lot of space on the coin field. Apparently for unification, since 1998, the Moscow emblem appears in a flattened version and in more modest sizes. However, it still looks more rounded than the SPMD logo.

For commemorative coins, one of the sides is completely given over to the design, so issuer designation"Bank of Russia" moves to the side where the denomination is located. The mint logo is also sent there. For bimetallic ten-ruble coins, it is located in the center of the lower half of the coin field under the inscription “RUBLE”. This is important to know because coins with the same design can have different prices depending on which mint produced a particular piece.

The case where there is no mint designation deserves a separate discussion. It is necessary to distinguish when this is a recognized variety (5 kopecks 2002 or 2003 or an anniversary two-piece with Gagarin), and when the letter or logo is missing as a result of a banal unminted coin (50 kopecks 2007 or bimetallic tens). In the first case, you have enough in your hands valuable coin. The second case is a common coin defect and is not worth a lot of money).

Let's look back through the pages of history. In Soviet times, most of the coins were minted at the Leningrad Mint, so the issue of designating the place of minting became actual only with the connection of the Moscow mint to the mass issues of the annual mintage. The exception is anniversary ruble“30 Years of Victory”, where a careful look can detect the elongated LMD logo to the right of the pedestal on which the grandiose monument “Motherland” is installed.

"MMD" and "LMD" on USSR gold coins

Mint abbreviations are also present on gold chervonets, which the Goths began to mint in the mid-seventies with the expectation that they would be purchased by wealthy Western tourists who came to the Moscow Olympics. Here we should pay attention to the Leningrad chervonets of 1981, which is a recognized rarity, while the Moscow coin with the same date does not stand out from the rest.

In the late eighties, experienced numismatists easily distinguished yards by date numbers. But 1991 revealed the letter designation “L” or “M” to the right of the coat of arms of the USSR (depending on whether the Leningrad or Moscow Mint minted them). We will see the same letters on coins of 10 and 50 kopecks new coin series, nicknamed by collectors "GKChP". Ruble denominations have already acquired courtyard logos. Fives from 1991 have to be placed in albums in two versions. But the situation with bimetallic tens is more interesting. The elongated LMD logo separates ordinary coins from very rare specimens, where we will see the rounded MMD emblem.

And for fives and rubles with the date “1992” there are already three slots prepared in the albums. The Moscow Mint first minted coins with the logo, but later the letter “M” appeared instead. In Leningrad, they initially began to mint these denominations exclusively with the letter “L”. Of the trinity of fives of a given year, coins with the emblem are less common, although even they are not so difficult to find when systematically scanning the heaps in those regions that were serviced by the Moscow Mint.

Designation of mints on coins of Tsarist Russia

Let's look even deeper into history. If we take the fourteenth century, then cities such as Ryazan, Novgorod, Pskov and Tver could boast of having a mint. True, crude blacksmithing technologies were mainly used here. The dominance gradually passed to the state mint, created in 1534 in Moscow. And under Alexei Mikhailovich, the activities of non-resident mints were temporarily stopped, and the coin business was concentrated in Moscow. In 1697, the Red Court, also called the Chinese Courtyard, opened because of its location near Kitay-Gorod. He was given a century of life, and during this period the coins issued at his facilities received the designations “KD”, “MD” and “MM”. Among the Moscow courtyards, we also note Kadashevsky, which also had the designations “MD”, but in addition also “MDZ”, “MDD”, “M” and “MOSCOW”. For the minting of kopecks from silver and copper coins on the territory of the Moscow Kremlin in the first quarter of the eighteenth century, the Embankment Mint, designated as “ND” and “NDZ”, operated.

But now St. Petersburg has been rebuilt, receiving metropolitan status, where the St. Petersburg Mint opened in 1721. Since 1724, it was he who was given the right to mint silver coins. Initially, it was located right in the Peter and Paul Fortress, but by the nineteenth century it was moved to Sadovaya Street, giving it the area of ​​the Assignation Bank, and then to a special building in Petropavlovsk. Over the years of its existence, it received the following designations: “BM”, “SM”, “SP”, “SPM” and “SPB”.

The vast expanses of Russia did not allow transporting a sufficient number of coins, while the need for them only increased in connection with the successful expansion to the east. It was necessary to establish the minting of money in the newly acquired territories. This is how they appear mints in Yekaterinburg ("EM"), the village of Anninskoye, Perm province ("AM"), Sestroretsk ("SM"). The Suzunsky Mint ("KM" and "SM") also worked successfully. The Siberian lands were provided with money by the Kolpinsky courtyard (in different years - “IM”, “KM” and “SPM”). On the southern borders, coins were minted from Tiflis and, for a very short time, Feodosia (“TM” - “Tauride coin”). Poland, as part of Russia, had a fairly large degree of independence, including its own mint in Warsaw. Coins minted there are designated "MW", "WM" (Warszawska mennica) and "VM" (Warsaw coin).

Just don’t confuse the mint designation with with the initials of the mintzmeister. Traditionally, on small and medium denominations, the letters indicating the first and last name of the mintsmeister were placed on the obverse under the eagle, and we will see the affiliation with the mint on the reverse under the denomination designation. In determining the value of coins of Imperial Russia, the initials of the mints are important. A coin of the same denomination with the same date could be minted en masse by one mint, while another would produce it in an extremely limited edition. For example, 42,450,000 copies of two kopecks with the date “1812” and the letters “IM” were minted; in Yekaterinburg (designation “EM”) as many as 132,085,700 coins were made, while only 250 thousand coins received the letters “KM”.

Graphic and letter designations on foreign coins

In conclusion, a few words about foreign coins. For European weather, sometimes the mint is also crucial. So complete collection of euro two-room apartments must include five copies of the same German coin, differing only by a single letter: A (Berlin), D (Munich), F (Stuttgart), G (Karlsruhe) or J (Hamburg). In the USA, on modern cents and dollars, mints are also distinguished by a single letter: D (Denver), O (New Orleans), P (Philadelphia), S (San Francisco) and W (West Point - precious metals only).

However, not all countries use letter designations. So Paris Mint France uses the cornucopia as a designation, and we will see the caduceus on coins Royal Mint Netherlands. However, here too one should not confuse the logo of the mint with the graphic designation of its director, which may change periodically when the position changes hands.