POLKOPECK: COIN OF SOVIET UNION
Polkopeck (1/2 kopeck), 1925: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) — transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, dictatorship. It was nominally a federal union of 15 national republics; in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.ПОЛ КОПЕЙКИ, 1925: polkopeck, 1925.
ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН, СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ!: Workers of the world, unite! (the political slogan — one of the rallying cries from "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; the essence of the slogan is that members of the working classes throughout the world should cooperate to defeat capitalism and achieve victory in the class conflict).
СССР: USSR.
Leningrad Mint (nowadays — Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Mintage: 45.380.000.
- Copper: 16 mm - 1.57 g
- Reference price: 6$
COIN POLKOPECK — WHERE & WHEN (coins catalog: by names & emitents)
- UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS (1925-1928): polkopeck = 1/2 kopeck = 1/200 ruble
POLKOPECK (½ kopeck, half a kopeck) as coin name.
Polkopeck — the smallest coin of the Soviet Union. It was minted from copper in 1925, 1927 and 1928 and corresponded to half a kopeck (or 1/200 ruble).
The coin was produced by the Leningrad Mint (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Mintages in 1925 and 1927 was the same — 45.380.000 pieces each. Polkopecks of 1928 are found in numismatic collections much less often, since these coins were issued 4 times less compared to the two previous issues.
There is information about another type of polkopeck coin — in 1961. But this variety did not go into mass production. The circulation turned out to be trial. Only a few rare copies have survived.
The name of the coin polkopeck (in Russian "пол копейки": "пол" or "половина" — means "half") obviously indicates the coin's equality with half a kopeck of the Soviet Union. It was the last issue of a similar denomination or its equivalent on Russian lands to date.
The polkopeck coin became a descendant of previous similar coins: denga, den'ga, denezhka, ½ kopeck serebrom.
