My first foreign coin purchase.

Until recently, all of my foreign coins have either been given to me by my grandmother, found in change, or given to me by family friends. As such, most of them have great personal significance.

Well, several weeks ago I saw this awesome looking Russian 50 kopek coin that was a 1 year issue minted the same year my grandmother was born and I just immediately fell in love with this coin. I just looked at it and instantly wanted it. It also had the very agreeable price of about $10 after shipping so it was cheap enough to be an "impulse buy." So obviously there was only one course of action, I bought it.

I got the coin about 2 weeks back but with finals and end of semester projects I just haven't really had the time to post anything about it. Below is the seller's pic because his looks much better than any of mine. It's a little worn and covered and small marks but this coin has great character.

I have 2 finals tomorrow and 1 more on Tuesday the 11th. On the 15th I'll get to go home and have a nice 4 week vacation.