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  • 50 Kopecks 1967, Y# 139, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
  • 50 Kopecks 1967, Y# 139, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR), 50th Anniversary of the October Revolution
Description

The October Revolution, officially known in the Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a seizure of state power instrumental in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917. It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 25 October 1917 (by the Julian or Old Style calendar, which corresponds to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian or New Style calendar). As the revolution was not universally recognized, there followed the struggles of the Russian Civil War (1917–22) and the creation of the Soviet Union in 1922.

Issue date: 1 October 1967
Artist: I. S. Krylkov
Sculptors: N. N. Philippov, I. S. Komshilov

Obverse

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union (fourth version, 1956–1991), text "50 years of Soviet power" and denomination.

The State Emblem of the Soviet Union is composed of a sickle and a hammer on a globe depicted in the rays of the sun and framed by ears of wheat wrapped around a ribbon with 15 turns. At the top of the Emblem is a five-pointed star.

ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ ЛЕТ СОВЕТСКОЙ ВЛАСТИ
ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ
КОПЕЕК

Reverse

Vladimir Lenin's monument with right arm raised facing left, a sickle and a hammer on the background, red star and abbreviation USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) on the left.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, alias Lenin (1870-1924), was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of the Russian Republic from 1917 to 1918, of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1918 to 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his political theories are known as Leninism. Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991.

A red star, five-pointed and filled (★), is an important symbol often associated with communist ideology.

СССР

Edge

8 stars and 8 points

★•★•★•★•★•★•★•★•

Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Circulating)
Material Copper Nickel Zinc
Weight 6.45 g
Diameter 25 mm
Thickness 2 mm
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Leningrad Mint (LMD)

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