Russia 1922 15 Kopeks 1924 Ruble
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Crusty- not sure what the surviving population looks like for these in MS as I suspect the vast majority were spent. Sort of an interesting historical piece
I thought I would edit the thread to add a Ruble
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That is a nice ruble!
My current "Box of 20"
Nice. I like coins from that era, lots of history.
I did not know until recently that the first coin was from a different 'coin issuing entity'. I always thought Russian coins went from Russia (Empire) in the 1910s to Soviet Union/CCCP in the 1920s and then to Russia in the 90s. But the first coin with the letters PCOCP or РСФСР is from the 'Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic' per Numista and they only issued five types of circulation coins.
Correct; the RSFSR was one of the founding members of the USSR (the others being Ukraine, Transcaucasia and Belarus). The largest and most powerful member, but still (on paper at least) merely the first among equals.
That these coins are very early in the Soviet experiment can be proven by their composition: they're both made of silver. Communist dogma would later evolve into "money is a necessary evil", a corollary of which is that, when the socialist utopia eventually materializes, money would no longer be necessary and people would throw it away voluntarily. Silver was an impediment to the utopia's arrival because people might be tempted to put their faith in the silver coins themselves, rather than in the State that issued them. As such, Soviet (and later Warsaw Pact) circulating coins would come to be made of substances that were both cheap and ephemeral.
The Soviets stopped making silver coins for circulation in early 1931; most of these silver coins would have been subsequently melted down.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
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