From Russia with love:smoke:

[draaiorgel]

These coins must have been in the sand for a good 20 years as they were heavily encrusted, so much so that they were each around 3/16" - 1/4" thick.
Boy they took some cleaning just to get them to this state, but for us they were entirely different.
That's half the fun not knowing what your gonna get next.
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[treasurefiend]

Cool finds!!!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Did you guys get invaded? I would love to find something like that.

 

[Da Yooper]

Nice, I got some old cccp's also.

 

[oldrivers]

omg russia invaded canada!

 

[draaiorgel]

Naaaaaaaa,
Scotland. You're excused.

 

[awhitster]

Cool coins. I haven't found one in the states yet. Still for one.

 

[draaiorgel]

No disrespect awhitster,
But it's nice to skunk you on something.

 

[oldrivers]

that's even worse!

 

[cwilk]

Fab coins!

When I was in Scotland all those years ago I remember that every packet of wooden matches I got was stamped made in USSR or possibly CCCP. We were not supposed to bring them back on the submarine but I did manage to sneak on a few as well as more than a few Cuban cigars, several of which were confiscated by an over ambitious cutoms agent who tried to turn it into an incident. I sure hope he enjoyed my stale Cubans. My boat was not stationed in Dunoon (Holy Loch) but we broke down up by the Artic Circle and limped into the Firth of Clyde. You can read about our mission that summer in the book "Blind Man's Bluff."

Chris

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

Some different coins their. Cwilk you should have put some firecrakers in those cigars that customs agent took from you.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Very nice coins my friend. You done good. Cleaned up pretty nice also. The volcanic soil here cruds coins up like that. I have to tumble them forever to get them clean.

Bill