The arms of the Soviet Union (a hammer and sickle overlain on a globe above the sun with rays, all within wreath or sheaf of wheat stalks, star above within 15 ribbons on the wreath (7 + 1 + 7 ribbons)
Obverse script
Cyrillic
Obverse lettering
СССР (Translation: USSR)
Reverse description
The denomination above the date within a partial wreath
Reverse script
Cyrillic
Reverse lettering
10
КОПЕЕК
1977 (Translation: 10 Kopecks 1980)
Edge
Reeded
Mint
M Moscow Mint (Московский монетный двор), Russia (?-date) Л Saint Petersburg / Leningrad / Petrograd, Russia (1724-date)