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Coin, 3 Kopeks, USSR (Soviet Union), 1972

Coin

Soviet aluminum-bronze 3-kopek circulating coin. Obverse: the USSR state emblem — hammer and sickle over a globe with radiating sun, flanked by wheat ears bound with ribbons and surmounted by a star — above the legend "СССР" (USSR). Reverse: large numeral "3" over "КОПЕЙКИ" (kopeks) and the date "1972," within a wreath of wheat.

2025.20.27

Standard-issue Soviet minor coinage. Soviet currency and coins circulated in and reached Cuba during the period of close economic and political alliance between the USSR and Cuba (1960s–1980s).

2025.20

Gift

1972

1970s

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe

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

"3"; "КОПЕЙКИ" (kopeks); "1972"

Aluminum-bronze alloy (standard for Soviet 3-kopek coins).

Poor

U.S.S.R.

Eastern Europe

Europe