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5 Roubles State Bank
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1961-1991) |
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| Obverse lettering | СССР 5 РУБЛЕЙ 1991 (Translation: USSR 5 Roubles 1991) |
| Reverse description | A detailed frontal view of the historic State Bank building in Moscow, a 19th-century Neo-Russian style structure, is depicted at the centre of the field, flanked on either side by ornate wrought-iron decorative gate panels featuring stylised floral and scroll motifs. The curved legend 'Государственный банкъ' (State Bank) arcs across the upper field in pre-reform Cyrillic script, following the contour of the coin. Below the architectural vignette, the inscriptions 'Москва' (Moscow) and 'XIXв.' (19th century) are placed in two lines in the lower field. |
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This issue belongs to the final series of Soviet circulating coinage, struck as the USSR was dissolving around the mint. The State Bank (Gosbank) that authorized it would cease to exist by year's end, replaced during the post-coup reorganization of August 1991. Coins dated 1991 from this series were struck at both the Leningrad and Moscow mints, identifiable by the "Л" and "М" mint marks respectively — a distinction that matters more to type collectors than condition does, given how briefly these circulated before the ruble collapsed into irrelevance.