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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jab3112000, post: 1693374, member: 48595&quot;]<b>I found this in an estate and have not been able to find more about it.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Front of coin is a bust of Lenin</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Back of coin translates to:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification</b></p><p>of the whole <b>country</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>The bust looks a lot like the 100 year lenin ruble coin (i think it was 5 rubles) but no date...so I am guessing it is at least older than 1979 and Lenin was still alive---Just guessing here... </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I was trying to translate parts of the paper that is with it, but kept ending up with nonsense phrases and a few words.&nbsp; I think it is a paper showing this to be the Xth out of XXX made.&nbsp; But not sure.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>The paper itself seems quite old the way it is printed, but it could just be the difference between russian and US printing.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>I clean up and sell estate contents for a living, and I get caught up in little mysteries like this.....</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>[ATTACH]256412.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]256413.vB[/ATTACH]</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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