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!
15 Kopecks 15 orbits
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
|---|---|
| Year | 1961-1991 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Rouble (1961-1991) |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Cyrillic |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The numeral '15' is prominently displayed in large raised figures across the upper portion of the field, below which the Cyrillic denomination КОПЕЕК (Kopecks) is inscribed in a straight legend. The four-digit date appears along the lower rim. Two symmetrical grain sprigs flank the denomination and date, their stems meeting at the base of the design, framing the central legends in a simple and functional composition characteristic of Soviet circulation coinage. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
This coin's informal name — "15 kopeks, 15 orbits" — refers to the price of a ride on the Moscow Metro, which held at 15 kopeks from 1961 until the fare system collapsed with the Soviet economy itself. The stability was deliberate political theater: subsidized transit prices were a cornerstone of Soviet social policy, and raising them would have amounted to an admission that the planned economy was failing.
The thirty-year production run with virtually no design change reflects the same logic — monetary stasis as ideological statement.