MY COLLECTION - ALBUM NO 7 - SOVIET UNION & EUROPE - SOVIET UNION COINS

CHAPPIDI ABHIRATH REDDY
C/O COL GKS REDDY

Secunderabad - 500015


Currency of Soviet Union

          The Soviet ruble or rouble (Russian: рубль; see below for other languages of the USSR) was the currency of the Soviet Union. One ruble is divided into 100 kopeks, (also transliterated as kopecks or copecks Russian: копе́йка, pl. копе́йки - kopeyka,kopeyki).

          In addition to standard banknotes, the Soviet ruble was available in the form of foreign rubles (Russian: инвалютный рубль); also, several forms of virtual rubles were used for inter-enterprise accounting and international settlement in the Comecon zone.[1] Many of the ruble designs were created by Ivan Dubasov.

          The Soviet currency had its own name in all Soviet languages, sometimes quite different from its Russian designation. All banknotes had the currency name and their nominal printed in the languages of every Soviet Republic. This naming is preserved in modern Russia; for example: Tatar for ruble and kopek are sum and tien. The current names of several currencies of Central Asia are simply the local names of the ruble. Finnish last appeared on 1947 banknotes since the Karelo-Finnish SSR was dissolved in 1956.

My Collection.

My Collection of Soviet Union Coins is reasonably OK. My collection contains about 23 coins of different denominations

½ Kopeck – Copper – 1909

One Kopeck – Bronze – 1901

One Kopeck – Brass – 1990

One Kopeck – Nickel – 1998

Two Kopeck – Bronze – 1903

Two Kopeck – Brass – 1935

Two Kopeck – Brass – 1961

Three Kopeck – Brass – 1946

Three Kopeck – Brass – 1970

Five Kopeck – Brass – 1961

Ten Kopeck – Nickel – 1954

Ten Kopeck – Brass – 1999

Fifteen Kopeck – Nickel – 1953

Fifteen Kopeck – Nickel – 1991

Twenty Kopeck – Nickel – 1932

Twenty Kopeck – Nickel – 1936

Twenty Kopeck – Nickel – 1957

One Rouble – Anniversary of WW II Victory – Nickel – 1965

One Rouble – Centennial of Lenin’s Birth – Nickel – 1970

One Rouble – 12^th World Youth Festival – Nickel – 1985

Three Roubles – Defence of Moscow – Nickel – 1991

Fifty Roubles –Wild Life Series – Bear – 1993

One Hundred Roubles – Nickel - 1993

Note - Some of the images of coins in my collection, have been taken from the Gallery to the extent available, to save on time & effort involved in photography & editing.