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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 2241294, member: 4373&quot;]I think what is intriguing would be the amount of different types of coins in circulation during the Soviet era. Take a step back and recall what was available. </p><p><br /></p><p>1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 kopek and 1 ruble. </p><p><br /></p><p>and then you had commemorative 1 ruble, 3 ruble, 5 ruble. </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s not include the last type of soviet coins issued in 1991. </p><p><br /></p><p>So there are effectively 9 different coins and another 3. This I believe is almost double of what many countries have coins for circulation! Whether all types of coins did circulate - that is another question. Even Russia has only 6 different coins in circulation currently.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe there was an interesting use of 15 kopek in Latvia. Latvia telecom actually took 15 kopek coins and overstruck, modified them to suit their needs. This example that I have is modified from 1987 15 kopek.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://omnicoin.com/coins/1016466.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think the 1993 coin issues are just tragic. Due to inflation, it just became too expensive to mint bimetallic coins. All coins had to be struck with plated steel to save on cost. While the original 50 coins were struck in nickel alloy, they were later struck in plated steel as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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