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20 Kopecks 16 orbits, Trial Strike
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1924-1958) |
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| Obverse description | The State coat of arms of the Soviet Union occupies the central field, featuring a hammer and sickle superimposed on a globe, surrounded by wheat sheaves bound with a ribbon and displaying 16 orbit bands, surmounted by a five-pointed star. The wings of wheat frame the central device prominently. The Cyrillic legend СССР (USSR) appears in bold incuse letters across the lower field beneath the arms. |
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| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Soviet trial strikes of this period were produced at the Leningrad Mint as part of ongoing postwar monetary reform experiments. The aluminum composition places this squarely in a series of tests exploring lighter, cheaper coinage metals — the USSR was actively reconsidering its circulating alloys through the early 1950s, though aluminum never made it into standard Soviet kopeck production of this era. The "16 orbits" designation refers to the number of oak wreath sections on the reverse, a detail used internally to distinguish die varieties during trial production.