Coins 1946 year of issue

USSR coins
After five years of exhausting and hardest war, the leadership of the USSR decided to quickly restore the economy and transfer it from military to peaceful.
In 1946, continued to be minted in large quantities bronze and nickel coins penny denominations with old stamps, changing only the year of issue.
The rarity is made up of coin-pieces, in which their face is minted from another stamp. The bronze coin 3 kopecks and nickel 20 kopeks have the same size, and almost the same front side - the exception is the star shape at the top of the stamp.
By the rare added more coins, which differ in the number of ribbons on the coat of arms. These are 3 kopecks with 16 ribbons, and a very rare and strange 10 kopecks with 7 ribbons on a coat of arms.
List of coins:
- 20 kopecks from a nickel alloy, weighing 3.4 grams and 2.18 centimeters wide;
- 15 kopecks from copper-nickel alloy, weighing 2.5 grams. and a diameter of 1.956 cm;
- 10 kopecks from a nickel alloy, 1.8 grams in weight and 1.797 centimeters wide;
- 5 kopecks of aluminum bronze, weight 5 g., Width 2.5 cm;
- 3 pennies of aluminum / bronze alloy, weighing 3 grams and a diameter of 2.2 centimeters;
- 2 pennies, aluminum bronze, weigh 2 grams, 1.8 centimeters wide;
- 1 penny of aluminum / bronze, weighs 1 gram, diameter 1.5 centimeters.
Coins "Arktikugol-Svalbard"
In 1946, payment bills of the Arktikugol trust in the form of coins of 50, 20, 15 and 10 kopecks were made at the Mint of the USSR. These coins were used for settlements on the island of Spitsbergen, where the Soviet coal mine was located, although this was formally the territory of Norway.
List of coins:
- 50 kopecks from copper / nickel, weighing 3.6 grams and 2.2 centimeters wide;
- 20 kopecks, copper / nickel, weigh 2.75 grams, 2.0 cm wide;
- 15 kopecks from brass, weight 5.0 grams and diameter 2.5 centimeters;
- 10 kopecks, brass, weigh 3 grams., With a diameter of 2.2 cm.