Coins for Gagarin and the SCO
The National Bank of Kazakhstan recently issued two new silver coins, one commemorating the 40th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight into space. The other is in honor of the tenth anniversary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. They look pretty nice; you can click on the gallery images below to get a better look at them. Interestingly the coin in honor of the first man in space has a face value of only 50 tenge (30 cents) and the SCO coin is 500 tenge (a value that doesn’t exist in general circulation).
I’ve never been one to buy silver coins, but I kind of like the Gagarin coin.
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I’m no big collector of coins either, but when I saw a set there last year (I think it would have been ~100 for all 5-6 of em?) I really wanted to grab em. I’ve recently seen em on eBay going for well over their purchase price too. While it’s not something I’d invest in, I wouldn’t mind adding these to my hoard-ollection 🙂