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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ddddd, post: 7297028, member: 22377&quot;]Coin #11 in the series - Belka Strelka</p><p><br /></p><p>Date of release: 03.01.2021</p><p>Quality: Proof</p><p>Mintage: 2,500</p><p>Notes: After a hiatus, the series returns! This year returned to the old style of normal greyish color (as opposed to the more colorful 2013-2015). The inner disc is made of tantalum while the outer ring is silver. The mintage sets a new low for the entire series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: A few smaller changes include the addition of the emblem of Kazakhstan to the left of the figure and a change in alphabets. Cyrillic has been dropped in favor of Latin letters (the change was announced in 2017, began showing up on coins in 2019, and is to be fully incorporated across the country by 2025).</p><p>Reverse: The first dogs to travel in space and safely return-Belka and Strelka.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick Fact: One of Strelka&#039;s puppies-Pushinka was gifted to President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961.</p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>My example is pictured below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1276692[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1276693[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>More info:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_dogs</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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