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1 Rouble Aleksandr Popov
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1984-1988 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble (1 SUR) |
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| Obverse description | The State coat of arms of the Soviet Union is prominently displayed in the upper centre of the field, featuring the hammer and sickle superimposed on a globe, framed by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon, and surmounted by a five-pointed star. The abbreviation 'СССР' (USSR) is inscribed in bold Cyrillic characters, divided across the lower left and right fields flanking the arms. Below, the denomination '1 РУБЛЬ' is rendered in large numerals and Cyrillic lettering, with the year of issue '1984' appearing in the exergue. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Issued to mark the 130th anniversary of Popov's birth, this coin commemorates the Russian physicist whose claim to the invention of radio has been a point of contention with Marconi's supporters since the 1890s. The Soviet state leaned heavily on Popov as a counter-narrative to Western technological primacy — his 1895 demonstration of wireless telegraphy predates Marconi's patent by roughly a year, though the absence of a published patent on Popov's part kept the dispute alive for decades.
The Y#195.1 and Y#195.2 varieties differ in edge lettering execution, a distinction common across Soviet commemorative roubles of this period tied to which mint facility handled the run.