Old coins, badges and watches on 999.md, via Telegram

In Moldova a box of Soviet badges or a Pobeda watch often reaches 999 at a guessed price, and a Telegram card gives you a fair shot at the first call.

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Set up in a minute

Search on 999, sort by newest

Build a narrow search on 999.md

Type the actual piece into the 999.md search box: Soviet badge, Moldovan 1 leu coin, Pobeda watch, Slava watch. Pick the matching category, set a price floor that cuts out new souvenirs and a ceiling you would really pay, then order the results newest first. Copy the address of that results page.
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Copy the link, paste it into mxsender

Hand it to MXSender and choose Telegram

Paste the link into MXSender, select Telegram and press Start in our chat. Email or Viber can be added to the same search if you want a second copy.
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New listings land in your Telegram

Watch the cards arrive

Each new listing lands as a card with the seller’s photo, the title, the price in lei or euro and a button that opens the ad on 999.md, tagged with the hashtag of the search it belongs to.
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Track a search on 999 right now

Paste the 999 search link you want watched — we’ll check we can read it, then set up your alerts.

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Moldovan ads come in two languages, so search in both

999.md is bilingual in practice. One seller titles a lot „insignă URSS“, another writes „значок СССР“; a watch can be „ceas Pobeda“ or „часы Победа“. A search in one language quietly misses the other half.

Set up one search per language for the same piece. Both feed the same chat, each with its own hashtag, so you can tell at a glance which spelling caught the ad.

A Chișinău flat clearance, read from your chat

A lot of old things surface when a family in Chișinău or Bălți clears out a relative’s flat. The ad is short, the photo is a box on a table, and the price is a guess. Other collectors read the same page, and whoever calls first tends to leave with the box.

Telegram is already open on your phone. When the card shows the box, you zoom into the photo, open the ad and message the seller before the evening crowd does.

What lands in the chat, and what you can do with it

The card shows the picture, the title, the price and a link button. Forward it to a fellow collector to ask for a second opinion. Mute a search that matters less and its cards arrive without a sound. Open the same chat on your laptop when you want to study a hallmark in a larger photo.

Restrikes, repainted enamel and swapped movements

Ask for sharp close-ups before you agree on anything: both sides of a coin, the back and fastening of a badge, the dial and the movement of a watch. Badges that look too fresh may have been repainted; a watch case can hide a movement from another model.

Meet in person where you can and pay on handover. A rarity offered for almost nothing with payment up front to a stranger’s card is the pattern to walk away from. We do not authenticate anything; the card only tells you an ad is new.

Picking a plan for a coin, badge or watch hunt

Free covers one search checked every 30 minutes, with Telegram included. Starter at $5.99 covers five searches every 10 minutes, enough for a series in both languages. Pro at $14.99 covers twenty searches with the fastest checks.