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1 Rouble 20th Anniversary of the Victory in Great Patriotic War
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1965 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Nikolay Sokolov Reverse: Alexander Vasilievich Kozlov |
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| Obverse description | The State Arms of the Soviet Union, featuring a hammer and sickle superimposed on a globe flanked by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon and surmounted by a five-pointed star, occupies the upper field in high relief. The abbreviation СССР (USSR) appears in large Cyrillic characters to either side of the central arms device, flanking it at mid-field. The denomination ОДИН РУБЛЬ (One Rouble) is inscribed in two lines across the lower field in bold Cyrillic lettering. The entire design is contained within a beaded border running the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | СССР ОДИН РУБЛЬ (Translation: USSR One Rouble) |
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Issued for the twentieth anniversary of Victory Day, this was only the second commemorative rouble the Soviet Union had produced since the Revolution — the first being the 1965 Lenin birth centenary piece struck the same year. Soviet commemorative coinage had been essentially dormant for decades, and the twin releases of 1965 marked a deliberate policy shift toward using coins as ideological instruments, a program that would eventually flood circulation with dozens of commemorative types through the 1970s and 1980s.
The two catalogue variants, Y#135.1 and Y#135.2, differ in the alignment of the star on the reverse relative to the lettering — a minor but well-documented die difference that spawned significant collector interest in the USSR itself.