Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Rouble Gagarin's Spaceflight
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR |
|---|---|
| Year | 1981-1988 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | 1991 |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | СССР 1 РУБЛЬ (Translation: USSR 1 Rouble) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Lettered (incuse); two edge varieties known |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Issued to mark the twentieth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's April 1961 Vostok 1 flight, this rouble appeared in 1981 as part of the Soviet commemorative programme that had been running since the 1965 Lenin centenary issues. Two die varieties exist — Y#188.1 and Y#188.2 differ in the alignment of the reverse lettering relative to the state emblem — and both circulated alongside ordinary one-rouble pieces without any premium attached in the domestic economy.
Gagarin himself had been dead for thirteen years by the time the coin was struck, killed in a MiG-15 training crash in March 1968 under circumstances that remain disputed.