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I just found this while going through my world coins and I thought it was interesting. Must have a good back story to it.   |
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Hi nice coin I cant really say what it is exactly because I am mostly concerned with Australian coins but this coin is communist due to the hammer and sickle on the reverse of the coin. The wording on the obverse should be from either Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union.
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12/30/2012 11:41 pm
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The alphabet is Cyrillic, so I'd transliterated it as "kopejka" or Anglicized "kopeck". The word is derived from a Russian word "kopjoh", or spear, for the initial design (as well as current) depicted a horseback warrior with a spear.
CCCP (SSSR really) is a Russian abbreviation for the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
The obverse image (bottom pic) actually has a motto in 15 different languages (invisible on coins), for each fold on the ribbon on the coat of arms said "Proletariat of the World unite" in the languages of 15 republics comprising the USSR.
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United States
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I have a similar coin in my collection. It is a USSR 1 kopeck (it's like a penny- 100 kopecks=1 Ruble, if I remember right.) That's a nice little piece of history!
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Y#126a from Russia (CCCP), but this coin doesn't look the right colour. It should be made of brass. Steve  |
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Australia
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Could it be a proof striking tho? the only other possibility I can think of is that it is fake but if your going to forge a coin why forge one so common (assuming it is common please tell me if I am wrong) and on the wrong metal?
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... but this coin doesn't look the right colour.
Could it be a proof striking tho? the only other possibility I can think of is that it is fake ... No, it's a regular circulation coin, it's just tricks the YN's camera playing on us. I'm already used to it from his Guess That Coin thread.  |
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Oh okay explains my confusion then |
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Yes it is brass, the camera will get better as the money does. ;) Yes it is a Soviet 1 kopek. I thought it was a little interesting piece of history, as it was made right in the middle of the Cold War.
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I can't remember what the alloy was but it was either copper-zinc or aluminium bronze - somewhere along those lines.
What's interesting of those smaller Soviet coins are if you weigh them, they weight approximately 1g to each kopek. I.e. 1 k = 1g, 2k = 2g, 3k = 3g, 5k = 5g.
That technically means that if you filter those bronze coins, you can weigh them and know how much you got.
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That is cool. I just weighed it and got 1.3, but my scale is always off a little (around 0.2 give or take), even with calibration.
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