5 rubles — USSR (1990) — Matenadaran Depository Yerevan

Special facts

A 1990 5-rouble coin with the Matenadaran in Yerevan, the repository of ancient Armenian manuscripts. The Institute of Ancient Manuscripts bears the name of Mesrop Mashtots, creator of the Armenian alphabet, and holds more than twenty thousand manuscripts; its building went up in 1959 on a hill above Yerevan. A monument to Mashtots stands before the building; the coin’s mintage was about 2.6 million.

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: 1990

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• 1 ruble (1989) — Mikhail Eminescu Y# 233
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• 1990
• 1 ruble (1990) — Pyotr Tchaikovsky Y# 236
• 1 ruble (1990) — Marshal Zhukov Y# 237
• 1 ruble (1990) — Anton Chekhov Y# 240
• 1 ruble (1990) — Janis Rainis Y# 257
• 1 ruble (1990) — Francisk Scorina Y# 258
• 1990–1991
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Alisher Navoi Y# 260
• 1 ruble (1990–1991) — Pyotr Lebedev Y# 261
• 1990
• 5 rubles (1990) — The Grand Palace in Peterhof Y# 241
• 5 rubles (1990) — Uspenski Cathedral Y# 246
• 5 rubles (1990) — Matenadaran Depository Yerevan Y# 259
• 1991
• 1 ruble (1991) — Sergei Prokofiev Y# 263
• 1 ruble (1991) — Konstantin Ivanov Y# 282
• 1 ruble (1991) — Magtymguly Pyragy Y# 283
• 1 ruble (1991) — Nizami Gyanzhevi Y# 284
• 3 rubles (1991) — Victory in the Battle of Moscow Y# 301
• 5 rubles (1991) — Cathedral of the Archangel Michael Y# 271
• 5 rubles (1991) — State Bank Y# 272
• 5 rubles (1991) — David Sasunski Monument Y# 273

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