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15 Kopecks
| Issuer | Soviet Union (Russia) |
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| Composition | Aluminum-bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ПЯТНАДЦАТЬ КОПЕЕК СССР |
| Reverse description | A dynamic high-relief composition depicts three revolutionary figures advancing in the foreground — a soldier, a worker, and a civilian — rendered in a Socialist Realist style suggestive of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Behind the figures, radiating sunbeams and a banner bearing the slogan ВСЯ ВЛАСТЬ СОВЕТАМ! curve along the upper arc of the coin. The commemorative dates 1917-1967 appear in the exergue, marking the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution. |
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Soviet aluminum-bronze 15-kopeck pieces were struck from 1926 through 1957, replacing the earlier silver issues that had circulated under the New Economic Policy. The shift away from silver was both ideological and practical — the state needed its metal reserves, and a workers' republic had little use for precious-metal pocket change.
The 1931 transition year is the one to know: silver and aluminum-bronze 15-kopeck coins circulated simultaneously for a brief window before the old issues were systematically withdrawn and melted.