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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1530564, member: 12789&quot;]Perhaps the hard money coins were minted as part of Lenin&#039;s NEP or New Economic Plan, which was a step back to blended Capitalism to transition to socialism in the near future:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/rossiya/sssr501924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin matches the standard of the Tsarist era silver coinage, ie .900 fine silver.&nbsp; 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&#039;s and early 1930&#039;s.&nbsp; 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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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