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Did you find it in circulation? Wikipedia has an anecdote about someone putting together a little set of 1, 2, 3, 5 kopeks with the old Пролетарии все. стран, соединяйтесь! slogan on them from circulation in the 50s or 60s.
Did you find it in circulation? Wikipedia has an anecdote about someone putting together a little set of 1, 2, 3, 5 kopeks with the old Пролетарии все. стран, соединяйтесь! slogan on them from circulation in the 50s or 60s.
Well, I can believe that. These small-denomination coins were explicitly excluded (i.e. allowed to circulate) in all the monetary reforms between 1935 and 1961, so surely there was some stuff from the 1920s still around in the 1960s.
In fact, a bucket of Soviet change (likely mainly collected in the mid-1980s) that I got from my great-aunt around 2010 had a coin from 1926! I've since lost that one, unfortunately (and almost all of my other pre-1961 coppers, which included several more coins from that bucket are now in my dad's collection).
As for the 1932 coin, to the best of my knowledge it stopped being legal currency sometime between 1935 and 1961; while I wasn't even born until 1992, well after any Soviet coinage could've circulated
The oldest coin that I had seen in current Russian circulation was dated 1972, and it wasn't even Russian (it was an Italian 20 lira that someone probably tried to pass as 10 rubles - some cashier showed it to me when I tried to ask for unusual money); the oldest such Russian coin was from 1991 (the Soviet Bank issue 10 kopek, which is relatively similar to the modern design).






















