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50 Roubles Tank Destroyer OBJECT 268
| Issuer | Soviet Union (Russia) |
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| Composition | Nickel silver |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 'ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ' (Fifty Roubles) is inscribed along the upper field, with 'СССР' (USSR) below it. At center, the Order of Victory medal is depicted in detail, its circular center showing the Moscow Kremlin wall, the Spasskaya Tower, and Lenin's Mausoleum, all surrounded by decorative bands of laurel and oak branches. The legend 'ПОБЕДА' (Victory) appears beneath the central motif, with the year '* 1945 *' inscribed in the exergue, commemorating the Soviet victory in World War II. |
| Reverse script | Cyrillic |
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Object 268 was a Soviet tank destroyer developed in the early 1950s as a successor to the ISU-152, mounting a 152mm M64 gun on a T-10 heavy tank chassis. It performed well in trials but was cancelled in 1958 when Khrushchev shifted military procurement priorities sharply toward missiles, judging conventional armor an expensive redundancy. Only one prototype survives, held at Kubinka.