Visiting Uzbekistan

Hello friends, 

  at the moment I am in Tashkent, enjoying local views, smells and tastes. 

  While it seems a coin store is still in the dream domain, there are bunches of guys selling local and USSR coins by weight in the weekend flea-market. Today I spent an hour at 40 degrees C sorting through jars of dusty Uzbeki coins, looking for missing verities (and there are many!). Found a fake Danzig 2 Guldens as well 🤣, so be careful b4 you buy anything there. 

Apart from the bulk being USSR coinage was there any Bukhara or Khiva Khanate copper coinage? As those two existed there until the early 1920s. 

I bet it must be a dream for Soviet pin collectors looking at the photo. 

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Apart from the bulk being USSR coinage was there any Bukhara or Khiva Khanate copper coinage? As those two existed there until the early 1920s. 

 

I bet it must be a dream for Soviet pin collectors looking at the photo. 

 

 

 

 

There were a few khanate coins on sale, but since I am not familiar with these, I cannot tell you which, genuine or not, or their asking price. 

Tried my luck with a few Bukhara street vendors - mostly USSR coins and a lot of fake Tsarist Russia Rubles, as well as unidentifiable copper coins. 

For five USSR commemorative Ruble coins in VF-XF condition they asked "only" 300 US$ 🤣

Very interesting, sounds like they know the market though and the propensity to get swindled seems high.

Have fun, its an exotic country that few Westerners visit.

Very suspicious as I thought they would be common as muck there. Also I thought you meant 300 Som if that was the case you would have bought their entire stock! 🙃 

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Very suspicious as I thought they would be common as muck there. Also I thought you meant 300 Som if that was the case you would have bought their entire stock! 🙃 

For 500 Som coin I wouldn't bother picking it off the street. The cheapest thing you can get (3000 Som) is entry to a public toilet 🤣. Small bottle of water - 5000. 

Seems like coins are pretty much useless there apart from the 1000 Som coin.

So I can't get anything for these

Moneytane

So I can't get anything for these

 

 

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Here are a few pics from the Silk Museum in Khiva. Silk banknotes and a reconstruction of a mint workshop where denomination and all texts were hand-written.