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1 Rouble
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR |
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| Year | 1958 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble |
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| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК ★ (Translation: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) |
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The 1958 rouble is one of the more historically loaded non-circulating Soviet issues. An entire coinage series dated 1958 was prepared for a planned currency reform, struck in quantity, and then suppressed when authorities decided to postpone the reform — ultimately executed in 1961 instead. Most of the 1958 pieces were melted, but examples escaped, and the Soviet government never fully accounted for how many survived outside state hands.
KM# Pn7 classification as a pattern reflects its official non-release status, though the distinction between "pattern" and "suppressed circulation strike" is blurry here.