20 kopecks — USSR (1967) — October Revolution

Special facts

The 20 kopecks of 1967 from the set for the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution, which comprised five commemorative coins: 10, 15, 20 and 50 kopecks and a rouble. That autumn the monument “The Motherland Calls!” was unveiled on Mamayev Kurgan, and the 20 kopeks were issued in about 50 million, like the set’s other kopek values.

About the period

The currency reform of 1961 was a 10-to-1 redenomination: from 1 January 1961 old money was exchanged for new money of one tenth the face value. The coins and banknotes of the 1961 pattern circulated until the end of the Soviet Union. More about the period “1961 Monetary Reform”, 1961 — 1991

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1967

Other items of the period

• 1965
• 1 ruble (1965) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 135
• 1967
• 10 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 136
• 15 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 137
• 20 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 138
• 50 kopecks (1967) — October Revolution Y# 139
• 1 ruble (1967) — October Revolution Y# 140
• 1970
• 1 ruble (1970) — Vladimir Lenin Y# 141
• 1975
• 1 ruble (1975) — Victory in the Great Patriotic War Y# 142
• 1977
• 1 ruble (1977) — October Revolution Y# 143
• 1 ruble (1977) — Olympic Emblem Y# 144
• 1978
• 1 ruble (1978) — Kremlin Y# 153
• 1979
• 1 ruble (1979) — University Y# 164
• 1 ruble (1979) — Monument to the Conquerors of Space Y# 165
• 1980
• 1 ruble (1980) — Yury Dolgoruky Monument Y# 177
• 1 ruble (1980) — Olympic Flame Y# 178
• 1981
• 1 ruble (1981) — Gagarin's Spaceflight Y# 188
• 1 ruble (1981) — Soviet-Bulgarian Friendship Y# 189
• 1982
• 1 ruble (1982) — Soviet Union Y# 190
• 1983
• 1 ruble (1983) — Karl Marx Y# 191
• 1 ruble (1983) — First Woman in Space Y# 192
• 1 ruble (1983) — Ivan Fyodorov Y# 193
• 1983–1985
• 1 ruble (1983–1985) — Friedrich Engels Y# 200
• 1984
• 1 ruble (1984) — Dmitri Mendeleyev Y# 194
• 1 ruble (1984) — Aleksandr Popov Y# 195
• 1984–1985
• 1 ruble (1984–1985) — Aleksandr Pushkin Y# 196

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