USSR: 50th Anniversary of Great October Socialist Revolution

Hallo my friends. I got interesting coins which were released at 1967 during celebration of 50th Great October Socialist revolution. It was commemorative coins for real circulation. I remember my childhood: it were rather rare coins.

 

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15 kopeks 1967, copper-nickel-zinc, weight - 3,4 g., size - 19,56 mm, thickness - 1,6 mm, mintage - 49789000 pcs. Engravers: V.A. Zasukhin & A.V. Kozlov. Single release.

 

20 kopeks 1967, copper-nickel-zinc, weight - 4,35 g., size - 21,84 mm, thickness - 1,7 mm, mintage - 49789000 pcs. Engravers: A.V. Kozlov & I.S. Komshilov. Single release.

 

50 kopeks (1967), copper-nickel-zinc, weight - 6,45 g., size - 25 mm, thickness - 2 mm, mintage - 49789000 pcs. Engravers: N.N. Filippov & I.S. Komshilov. Single release.

 

With a mintage of almost 50 million per denomination, you might think that they would actually show up in circulation, at least to a limited extent. But maybe many people who got them put them aside ...

I have the 1 ruble coin from that set (designed like the 50 kopek piece). You will know this but let me add that the two figures on the 15 kopek coin were made for Paris, so to say, and that the ship on the 20 kopek is the Aurora. Any coins planned for next year?

Christian

 

No. Russia is a capitalist country now. Not socialist.

 

Point taken. Then again, mints have that tendency of making money for the government by making money for collectors, hehe.

Christian

 

As a kid in late 80s I remember these coins in circulation, especially the 15kop. and 20kop. I guess the rarest I saw circulating was the 50kop, ruble was also common in circulation. It was in a region that is now known as Ukraine, so maybe the situation was different in Siberia area.

Much later, as a collector, I got the set:

 

These sets are somewhat difficult to find in nice shape as often the plastic on them disintegrated over time. My set fits that category. I never saw these coins in circulation either, Russian Far East, but have seen them for sale in bazaars in Ukraine as circulated coins

 

Ukraine was the testing grounds it seems. Some 1958 coins were found in there, if I remember correctly the stories. Also some of the extremely rare 2 karbovanets German occupation notes (1942-1945) were found in there.

 

Sounds like our Kennedy half dollars.

 

Thank God........ Perhaps we'll get along better.

 

The 1 and 2 Karbovnets banknotes were allegedly on a train that was blown up by partisans. The other notes up to 100 Karbovnets are reasonably common, then 200 and 500 get scarcer.

 

I got them all, excluding the 2 karbovanets obviously.

1 karbovanets is easy to buy, I did not hear the story about it being on the train.