A Hot Coin from the Cold War
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Lenin 1 Ruble
Item # 007707 
Circulated 
Price: $19.95
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Country:
 USSR
Date:
 1970
Metal:
 Copper-Nickel
Denomination:
 1  Ruble
Diameter:
 30 mm
Condition:
 Circulated
Obverse:
 Profile head of Lenin with dates 1870 - 1970
Reverse:
 Shield of the Soviet Union CCCP
In 1970, during the height of the Cold War, the USSR issued this one-year-only Ruble commemorating the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s birth. Today, this Cold War coin is red hot as a scarce collectible from that historic decades-old crisis.