Soviet Era Coinage...Post 'em!!!

Soviet era coins are some of my favorite to collect. Here are a few from my modest collection. Please post some of your favorites. NCLT's included!


Russian Soviet Republic - 10 Kopeks - 1923 - Y #80 - AG

 

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Soviet Union - 1 Kopek - 1933 - Y #91


Soviet Union - 2 Kopeks - 1924 - Y #77 - Reeded

 

Soviet Union - 5 Kopeks - 1931 - Y #94



Soviet Union - 10 Kopeks - 1924 - Y #86 - AG

 

Soviet Union - 10 Kopeks - 1931 r - Y #95 - CN



Soviet Union - 15 Kopeks - 1931 r - Y #96

 

Soviet Union - 1 Kopek - 1936 - Y #98


Soviet Union - 2 Kopeks - 1940 - Y #106

 

Soviet Union - 3 Kopeks - 1940 - Y #107



Soviet Union - 5 Kopeks - 1935 - Y #101

 

Soviet Union - 10 Kopeks - 1938 - Y #109



Soviet Union - 15 Kopeks - 1941 - Y #110

 

Soviet Union - 20 Kopeks - 1942 - Y #111

 

You cannot miss how the name of the country with all the titles etc is so long that it has to be divided or abbreviated.

 

Here is one more coin you can have then only owned if you were a foreigner:



Notice how this coin didn't become a USSR/SSSR coin but stayed as RSFSR.

 

These 1924 Rubles are real stinkers to find this nice:

 

I have a few, not worth the time of taking pictures, and those two, that I've been gifted with and very nice :





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Pyatachaka 1924:



Denezhka 1925:



Even though everybody knew this denomination as denezhka, or denga officially - on the USSR coin it is referred to as "half kopek".

 

Perhaps the hard money coins were minted as part of Lenin's NEP or New Economic Plan, which was a step back to blended Capitalism to transition to socialism in the near future:



This coin matches the standard of the Tsarist era silver coinage, ie .900 fine silver. But like the NEP, the coins in coin silver and .500 fine for smaller denominations went out the door when I V Stalin consolidated his power in late 1920's and early 1930's. By 1931 all silver and gold coins disappeared again, and the USSR led the world in the creation of a fiat currency, a precedent that even the Capitalist enemies of Socialism would follow over the next decades.

 

One rouble 1921.
Russian Soviet Socialist Federated republic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFibtD3H_k

 

In the end game, ie 1991 it was only way to legally take out coins out of the USSR - if you exchanged ruble notes and they had no valuta - hard currency, then they gave you these commemorative coins or sometimes I could find German marks in change from Beriozka stores. With my good Soviet era mindset though I brought out all the coins and banknotes, ie brand new 100 ruble notes I wanted though. So I have some commemoratives of the Soborii(cathedral?) and lots of USSR change. Then I have to stop my kids from buying these things for souvenirs when we are back there - go figure!

 

People might be surprised how much some of the coins in this thread are worth now days. Even "cheap" coins like the AU '40 3k are going for prices like $50. That '67 mint set is really undervalued compared to some of the later sets that go for a couple thousand like the late-'60's and early '70's sets. The '91 is at $2800+.

A lot of the Soviet coins are just smoking hot right now and might be good sells. The older Russian coins are hot as well. Even exceedingly common coins like lustrous small silver from the 1910's have prices up to $30.