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Coin, 5 Kopeks, USSR (Soviet Union), 1979

Coin

Soviet aluminum-bronze 5-kopek circulating coin. Reverse: large numeral "5" over "КОПЕЕК" (kopeks) and the date "1979," within a wreath of wheat and oak. Obverse: the USSR state emblem — hammer and sickle over a globe with radiating sun, flanked by wheat ears with ribbons, surmounted by a star — above the legend "СССР" (USSR).

2025.20.28

Standard-issue Soviet minor coinage.

2025.20

Gift

1979

1970s

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

"СССР" (USSR); state emblem (hammer and sickle, globe, sun, wheat, star)

"5"; "КОПЕЕК" (kopeks); date "1979"

Aluminum-bronze alloy (standard for Soviet 5-kopek coins).

Poor

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe