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Soviet coins
This year, new coins were launched into circulation. Many of them were printed, and the absolute majority of them are of no value. But there are interesting exceptions: 1. Very rare and valuable coins 5 kopecks, made of gold. These coins were unofficially made by handicraftsmen for the purpose of their export abroad by criminal means. Today the price of these rarities reaches half a million rubles.
2. In 1961, as an experiment, coins of 4 kopeks were issued and put into circulation. Over the following years, these coins were withdrawn from circulation and melted. Now it is a rarity worth a lot of money.
3. Of great value are coins of 1961, made from a material other than the serial one. The price of such coins is hundreds of times higher than the serial ones.
Nowadays, there are rumors on the Internet that there are coins of 1961, made with the addition of some radioactive material - “stradius”, and they are in demand abroad. In fact, this is absolute nonsense.
1961 coin denominations:
- 1 ruble, copper-nickel, weighing 7.5 grams and 2.7 centimeters wide;
- 50 kopecks, material - "German silver-10", weight 4.4 g., Diameter 2.4 cm, with a smooth herd;
- 20 kopecks, made of cupronickel, weighing 3.4 grams and 2.18 centimeters wide;
- 15 kopecks from nickel silver, weigh 2.5 g., Diameter 1.956 cm;
- 10 kopecks, copper / nickel, weight 1.8 grams, width 1.727 centimeters;
- 5 kopecks, minted from a copper-zinc alloy, weighing 5 grams. and 2.5 cm in diameter;
- 3 kopecks, brass, weigh 3 grams, 2.2 centimeters wide;
- 2 pennies, copper / zinc, weight 2 g., Diameter 1.8 cm;
- 1 kopek, brass, weighing 1 gram, with a diameter of 1.5 centimeters.
You should know that brass is a copper-zinc alloy, and copper-nickel alloy is also called cupronickel and nickel silver.
"Nickel silver-10" - an alloy in the ratio: 58% copper, 30% zinc and 12% nickel.
