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10 Kopecks 7 orbits
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR |
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| Year | 1924-1931 |
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| Diameter | 17.27 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН, СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ! С.С.С.Р. (Translation: Workers of the world, unite! USSR) |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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The "7 orbits" nickname refers to the seven lines encircling the globe on the reverse, a detail that became the shorthand collectors use to distinguish this type from later Soviet coinage. Issued during the NEP period, when Lenin's partial market liberalization briefly restored convertible silver currency to Soviet circulation, these small coins represented an uneasy ideological compromise — a Bolshevik state minting hard money to stabilize an economy it had nearly destroyed through War Communism.
Production ceased by 1931 as Stalin's industrialization drive rendered the NEP's monetary logic obsolete. The silver was needed elsewhere.