Question Regarding Russian (USSR) Currency.

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David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1575 Posts	Posted 02/03/2022 4:14 pm When looking at Kopeck coins I often see the term orbits. When I tried googling Russian currency and orbits I get taken to a million pages on the Russian space program. Can any one explain or point me to a page dealing with monetary rather than space orbits? Thanx Report this Post to the Staff

Sir Derrin Valued Member United States 177 Posts	Posted 02/03/2022 4:49 pm https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ko...288-1&ia=web This seem to work fine.... Report this Post to the Staff
David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1575 Posts	Posted 02/03/2022 4:53 pm Thanx Sir Derrin. Here I was thinking an orbit was a monetary unit. Report this Post to the Staff
X2an Pillar of the Community Sweden 1078 Posts	Posted 02/03/2022 4:54 pm Hi there! The orbits you are confused about are the ribbons or 'wrappings' around the wheat stalks on the soviet emblem, each representing a member country of the USSR (oddly reminiscent of the US and stars...) Some of the most obvious examples of the differences in orbits are the additions of member states starting in the 1930's: 7 orbits; -1936 11 orbits; 1937-1947 16 orbits; 1948-1956 15 orbits; 1957-1991 Hope this helps a bit Report this Post to the Staff
David Graham Pillar of the Community Australia 1575 Posts	Posted 02/06/2022 3:44 pm Thanks Andreas. BTW - I just received the coins you sent me. Haven't had time to unpack but they look awesome. Thanks! Report this Post to the Staff
Grinya Valued Member 251 Posts	Posted 02/08/2022 3:00 pm There is one more numismatic meaning of orbits from the story about a ruble with informal name "three orbits". There is a good illustration of it on Numista: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces4593.html The first coinage was with model of lithium atoms. Photos of the coin were published in Soviet central newspapers, for example in "Izvestia' in November 1st 1977. The image was such: Soviet Censures then removed all such rubles, because they recognized main Zionist symbol - Davis's Star in the crossing of lithium atom orbits. So, they decided to re-design coin and change lithium to beryllium atom. Some copies found their way to collections. Report this Post to the Staff
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