Old Soviet coins.

Very Nice Coins!!

 

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Here's my collection of old Soviet coins from 1921-57: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/rus_new_type/1921_1957.htm

Warning - lots of images.

My rarest coin out there maybe the 1935 (old style) 5 kopek.

 

Nice ! Thanks, Siberian Man ! :high5:

I have a handful of kopecki I picked up in Russia - Moscow, Pereslavl, Yaroslavl, Vologda, St Pete... it's a big country ! :thumb:

 

gxseries: Love them. Especially the 1924 50 kopek and the 1924 ruble. The ruble is high on my wish list.

In answer to Chip, I like Russian coins in part because of the contrast and similarities between the imperial eagle, the soviet wreath, and the modern eagle.

Can you post some of those gxseries or do you limit yourself to soviet era?

 

I too have taken an interest in soviet coins lately, sometimes hard to find though. So much crap to weed through on ebay mostly cleaned, I am guessing that is what happend to this coin. Looks to have been subjected to some very harsh cleaning maybe. I do not know what else would do this to a coin. Anything different with their process of making silver coins that might give a clue?

 

Nice, I love Soviet coins. I have a few, nothing rare but I like them a lot.

 

It"s a gigantic country:smile!

 

O.K. I show it today in new post.

 

Siberia Man, I feel like our collecting interests are IDENTICAL

I'm looking at your posts and I have a very similar collection, Russian banknotes 1898-1991, and Russian/Soviet coins 1895 to 1991. Great coins there, I especially like your 1924 1 Rouble - great condition, still tying to get one of those. I'm also Russian, and I know how you feel about the money from the motherland and its history :high5:

 

I've collected so much that it's getting to a stage of 'not funny'. Here's my other Russian coins that I've assembled as a set - still messy but I'm working on it.

http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm

For the rest of my collection, you can see them here: http://www.omnicoin.com/user_view.aspx?id=gxseries

 

Edge lettering on 10 Rubel Chervonetz

Can you translate the edge lettering on a 10 Rubel Chervonetz gold piece for me? I have tried to copy it as accurately as possible on the attached file, please forgive my crude Cyrillic. (Some of the letters I can't find in the Microsoft symbols Cyrillic font: e.g. what I have copied as sort of like an upside-down y is actually somewhere between that and a lambda). I have figured out the "LMD" between parentheses means Leningrad Mint, but the rest escapes me.

 

ffrickey: It says "pure gold 1 zolotnik 78,24 doli". It is an older version of Cyrillic font, some letters are slightly different today. Zolotnik and dolya are measures of weight in Russia, were used in the past, approximately until the 20th century during the Russian Empire era. Starting with soviet times and until today "grams" and "kilograms" are in use.


1 zolotnik = 4.2658 grams = 96 dolya. More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zolotnik

Rhino89: A lot of people are into such collections, i am also one of them (look at my avatar)

 

"ЛМД" - it means "Leningrad's mint".

 

Thanks for the explanations!

 

I have a few Soviet coins. They are a part of history. I have a small collection of coins from countries that were the USA's enemy at one time...the USSR, North Korea, Lybia, Iran, etc.

 

Wow, impressive collection, gxseries, and splendidly documented! Congratulations.

 

Variant 1924 50 Kopecks?

I have a 50 Kopeck coin from 1924 with the following edge lettering: [FONT=&quot](23.10.5Д) 11.1 ЧИOTOГO CEPEЬPA 9 ГPAMM
If I read that correctly, it says "pure silver(?) 9 grams". Krause offers Y #89.1 from 1924 with "weight shown in old Russian units" on edge, or Y #89.2 from 1925 & 1926 with "weight shown in[/FONT] ЖУДПП (grams) only". But this is a 1924 50 kopeck piece with weight shown in [FONT=&quot]ГPAMM (grams). Is this a variant that Krause doesn't know about?[/FONT]

 

Yes it is. "Pure silver 9 grams".

 

What is the legal tender status of Soviet issued coins and notes? Did that vanish when the CCCP dissolved?

 

When did Soviets switch from using silver to non-precious metals in their coins? It seems that they switched rather early, in comparison to U.S...?