Soviet gold ducat. Gold ducats of the USSR When the gold ducat was introduced

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Moscow, December 29 - "Vesti.Ekonomika"In 1922, a gold ducat was issued in the Soviet Republic - a hard currency that was quoted on the stock exchanges of a number of countries. After many years of shocks and wars, inflation and devaluation, a monetary unit appeared in the country, which was backed by gold, precious metals and foreign currency, as well as short-term liabilities. The monetary reform was led by Grigory Sokolnikov, Lenin's associate and People's Commissar of Finance. About the difficult fate of the "chervonny" commissar, about the history of the rise and fall of his chervonets - in the material "Vesti.Ekonomika".

G.Ya.Sokolnikov

Grigory Yakovlevich Sokolnikov was a participant, as he himself described in his questionnaire, the October Revolution. His daughter Geliana Grigorievna recalls: “When it was allowed to open the party archives, I came across this questionnaire, in which it was written in his hand that on the night of the October Revolution he and Lenin slept in Smolny on the newspapers. Somewhere in the morning, Antonov-Ovseenko, a famous Bolshevik, came from the Winter Palace and said: "The Provisional Government has withdrawn its powers." My father does not describe any assaults, no shooting, no strangers in this questionnaire. "

The fate of this handsome, educated person from a wealthy family is amazing. Father - collegiate counselor, military doctor, mother - daughter of a merchant of the first guild. The family lived in the very center of the capital - on Trubnaya Square. However, from childhood, the boy was embarrassed by his Jewish origin. The real name of the future People's Commissar is Girsh Yakovlevich Brilliant. He graduated from the famous gymnasium No. 5 at that time, where he studied with Pasternak. He entered the law faculty of Moscow University. However, I did not get a diploma: I became interested in the Jewish economist Marx. New ideas prompted me to join the RSDLP. The university was abandoned, and the young man plunged headlong into revolutionary activities.

House of the family of G.Ya.Sokolnikov (Brilliant) on Trubnaya Square. The father of the Commissar kept a pharmacy

In 1907, a nineteen-year-old student was sentenced by the tsarist secret police to life in exile in the village of Rybnoye, Yenisei province, for campaigning among weavers in Sokolniki. Hence his surname, with which he entered Soviet history - Sokolnikov. Grigory fled from Siberia after 1.5 years and was able to get to Paris, where he met Lenin. An active young man was the editor of a party newspaper, led the club "Proletary" and entered the Sorbonne. He graduated from the Faculty of Law, listened to a doctorate in economics. Thus, at the age of 26, he became a doctor of economic sciences, knew six languages.

After the October Revolution, he entered the first Central Committee. In addition, Lenin appointed him assistant commissioner of the State Bank. It was Sokolnikov who in 1918, as a lawyer, dealt with the issue of Russia's withdrawal from the First World War and signed the Brest Peace.

Meeting of the Soviet government in the Kremlin. Lenin is at the head of the table

During the Civil War, an intellectual who had never held a weapon in his hands before that time became a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the two southern armies. “I was shown a questionnaire in the archive, where Sokolnikov urgently telegraphed Lenin to stop decossacking the Cossacks on the Don, because the First Horse under the command of Budyonny and Sverdlov behaves badly here. For this, Budyonny did not really like him all his life. But decossackization was stopped, ”says the daughter of the People's Commissar Geliana Sokolnikova.

Then Grigory Sokolnikov was appointed commander of the 8th Army. For the maneuvers of this army, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, which is still kept in Gokhran. According to Sokolnikov's daughter, her father did not wear the order, because he believed that it was impossible to wear the order for fighting his own people.

Grigory Sokolnikov in the first row, second from the left

In 1920, at the end of the Civil War, he was appointed commander of the Turkestan Front. There Sokolnikov began to carry out the first reforms. He, a Bolshevik, released politically loyal clergy - mullahs from prisons, allowed frequent trade, private markets, the surplus was canceled. And all the various money that went to the villages, he exchanged for the single money of the Soviet state. In addition, he managed to solve the problem of the Basmachi. Those who were more or less loyal to the new government were appointed to positions in local government so that they would not fight. The rich paid off with money. The Irreconcilable fled to Afghanistan. “Before perestroika, a colonel came to me from Central Asia, who told me that they had found documents, how Sokolnikov helped people who lived in villages and auls in the 1920s. The locals wanted to erect a monument to him! " - says Geliana Grigorievna. The monument, however, was never erected.

In Turkestan, trouble happened to Sokolnikov - he was hit in the kidney by a horse, and he was forced to leave for Moscow. Lenin came to the Botkin hospital as a simple visitor, without security. On the edification of doctors, Sokolnikov was sent to Germany for an operation. He returned to Russia in 1922. And there is famine in the country. The entire financial economy has been destroyed. Some Bolsheviks believed that money was not needed at all. Sokolnikov was first appointed to the post of Deputy People's Commissar of Finance of the USSR, and then he headed the department. At that time, renting an apartment in Moscow cost 20 billion. Haircut at a hairdresser - 1 million. And, besides, a lot of miscellaneous drawn and self-printed money circulated around the country.

Golden ducat

For 2.5 years, Grigory Sokolnikov and his team of scientists and economists, including "tsarist" ones, managed to implement a monetary reform, two denominations. (Later, in 1937, almost all of the comrades-in-arms were shot). Introduced into circulation is the "chervonets" - a hard currency equated to the 10-ruble gold coin of the Tsar's minting. Chervonets was 25% backed by gold, other precious metals and foreign currency, another 75% by short-term liabilities and liquid goods. Treasury notes and bargaining silver, copper coins were issued. In the USA, China, Italy, Great Britain, Turkey and other countries, the Soviet chervonets was officially quoted on stock exchanges. For example, one gold piece cost $ 1.9. Under Sokolnikov, the State Bank resumed its work, and savings banks started working across the country. Local budgets have appeared. Sokolnikov, in fact, created the financial system of the young Soviet state.However, after Lenin's death, the situation changed - People's Commissar Sokolnikov ended up in the camp of the opposition. In political matters, he adhered to the same position with Bukharin, Kamenev and Zinoviev. At the 14th party congress, he delivered a speech in which he protested the need for the post of general secretary, for which Stalin had claimed. As a result, in the 26th year, Sokolnikov was removed from the post of Minister of Finance. Together with him, the gold piece "rolled". The former People's Commissar was reminded that he opposed collectivization, but for the kulaks and the middle peasants. After his removal, he was sent as deputy Krzhizhanovsky, chairman of the State Planning Commission. Then he was demoted to the chairman of the USSR Oil Syndicate. Sokolnikov did not calm down - he criticized rigid industrialization, drew attention to the fact that the country needs consumer goods - it is necessary to raise light industry. The educated and active Sokolnikov was removed from all government posts. He earned money teaching at the largest Moscow universities, wrote books, and appeared in various newspapers 250 times.

Galina Serebryakova and Grigory Sokolnikov

However, Stalin again called on Grigory Sokolnikov, sending him ambassador to England. “Winston Churchill, Bertrand Russell, Herbert Wells, Academician Joffe visited him at dinner,” Sokolnikov's daughter Geliana comments on that period. However, his wife, the famous Soviet journalist and writer Galina Serebryakova, wrote a critical book about England. A scandal broke out, and they were expelled from foggy Albion.

Returning to Russia in 1932, Sokolnikov met with Stalin in the Kremlin, he said: “They say the British liked you very much. Why did you come? I had to live with them ... ”This was one of the warnings. Sokolnikov was appointed Deputy Litvinov - People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs for the Far East (China, Mongolia, Japan). The former People's Commissar of Finance wrote to Stalin. “I saw these three letters that he doesn’t like paperwork,” says Geliana Grigorievna: “He was humiliated, and his last position was - Deputy Minister of the Forestry Industry. In 1936 he was arrested. "

Geliana G. Sokolnikova

Sokolnikov was arrested in the case of the Parallel Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center, although, according to his daughter, he was never a Trotskyist. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. The family was repressed: Galina Serebryakova spent almost 20 years in camps and exile, where the then very little Geliana was also sent with her mother. On May 21, 1939, Sokolnikov was killed in the Tobolsk cell. Until now, his grave is unknown.

Once upon a time, the introduction of a gold piece saved Russia from chaos and devastation. The coin was introduced in 1922 by a graduate of the Sorbonne, Lenin's ally, a man whom Stalin respected and feared - Grigory Sokolnikov. His daughter shares her memories.

People's Commissar Sokolnikov left 26 works on finance and one art book about the signing of the Brest Peace. Despite a significant contribution to the creation of the financial system of the Soviet Republic, to significant posts and friendship with top officials, this person did not make any property. “He is an intellectual, a scientist in his image, and a very decent person. My father never even had his own apartment, he lived with his wife - my mother, in an apartment bought with a fee from her book "Marx's Youth" - says Sokolnikov's daughter Geliana: “There was no car. On business trips, he saved, and then handed over the money to the State Bank. And he said: the money in my pocket is the money of my country. "

During the existence of the RSFSR, quite a lot of coins of various denominations were minted. At the same time, state standards of tsarist Russia, since it was not possible to quickly bring from other countries or create new machines for minting coins and approve new samples. However, the design of the monetary units of new Russia has changed a lot. Many of them featured a five-pointed star on one side and a crossed hammer and sickle on the other. However, the appearance of the gold duct was very different from other coins.

The cost of a gold coin of 1923

Price of a chervonets (Sower) 1923 based on sales results in 2019-2020:

• in a state of no use (UNC): from 2500$ before 3000$
• in weak PCGS and NGC (MS63): from 3300$ before 3500$
• in weak PCGS and NGC (MS64): from 3800$ before 4000$

Gold ducat Sower 1923

When it was minted, it was used gold 900... Let us recall that the same sample of gold coins was used to create banknotes of the times. The diameter of the coin is 22 mm, and weight 8.6 grams... All coins of this sample were minted at the St. Petersburg (Petrograd) Mint in the period from 1923 to 1924. At the same time, gold ducats were minted with 1911 stamps.

Gold 10 rubles were used only for implementation external economic settlements... They were almost never used domestically. Therefore, despite the circulation of 2,751,000 pieces, there are practically none left inside the country.

More than half of these rubles, which were in the RSFSR after 1925, were given for melting. These coins were used to create gold bars. It's connected with changes in the gold standard in Europe.

The obverse of the coin contains the image of a Soviet worker throwing seeds into the ground. He himself is barefoot, and his pants are rolled up to the knee. A knapsack with seeds is tied to his neck. His work takes place against the backdrop of a hand plow. Behind it is the city. Above the worker is engraved the inscription "ONE CHERVONETS", and between the leg and the plow is the date of minting of the coin. A decorative border is cut along the edge of the gold piece. The coin itself ends with a small rim.

On the reverse, right in the center is the emblem of the RSFSR: a hammer and sickle crossed among themselves against the background of the rising sun and its rays. Along the edges of the coat of arms there are ears of wheat, which "grow" from a figured shield. The inscription "RSF.S.R." is engraved in the panel itself. From it comes a continuous circular border that separates the coat of arms from the inscription "PROLETARIES OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" Then a dotted border is placed around the entire circle of the coin and a small rim.

The edge of the coin is smooth with the inscription “1 GOLDEN 78.24 SHARES OF PURE GOLD” engraved on it.

A coin of this denomination was minted throughout the existence of the RSFSR... In the USSR, it was revived only in 1975.

A specialist worked on the design of the 1923 sample Anton Fedorovich Vasyutinsky... The sculpture by Ivan Dmitrievich Shadr "The Sower" was taken as a model. It was the image of the peasant on the coin that became the reason that this gold piece was nicknamed the "sower".

The purchasing power of the gold coin was initially extremely high. After it came into circulation, the chervonets became a measuring instrument for all currencies and goods that were in circulation on the territory of the RSFSR.

But the gold standard did not hold out for a relatively long time due to the fact that transition to gold bullion and gold exchange standards.

The video below takes a closer look at the 1923 Sower Duke Sower:

Copper duct 1925

In 1925, the issue of the same coins was being prepared, but with the emblem of the USSR. In addition, the new coins were not made of gold, but copper. For the rest of the characteristics, the copper ducats were identical to the gold ones.

Today, copper coins of 1925 are a huge rarity. They are found in single copies and are very expensive. So, it is known that in April 2008 at a numismatic auction in Moscow, a copper duct was put up for auction, which, with an initial price of $ 13,000, was sold for $ 65,000.

1975 chervonets

Closer to the second half of the 70s, the State Bank of the USSR made a decision on resumption of minting of gold ducats... It was assumed that their sale would become a source of income on the eve of the 1980 Moscow Olympics. In the period 1975-1982, more than 6.5 million coins were produced in total. They were distinguished from the 1925 chervonets only by the date of manufacture.

However, the expected economic effect was not achieved. Despite the fact that the new coins were quite popular among tourists, and were also used in foreign economic activity, they did not bring profit to the state... The reason was simple: the price of chervonets was quite a bit higher than the value of the gold from which they were made.

You can also watch the video review of the 1980 gold duct:

How much is the gold ducat of the RSFSR

Today on the market a gold coin from the times of the RSFSR is very expensive. So, a coin of excellent quality at various auctions can cost within USD 7500... Although, there are cheaper samples of satisfactory quality. You can buy these copies of the gold duct for about $ 2,000. The average market price for a good quality coin is USD 3000-4000.

If you want to sell your coin, it is important to know that it is genuine - the value of the gold piece depends on it. You can independently carry out several tests to compare the edge and both sides, as well as weighing and measuring the coin. But in order for the coin to get to the auction, it is necessary. To do this, you need to contact the specialists of our company.

Just use the form to send a photo of the gold duct on the site, and we will be able to fairly quickly and accurately. In the first case, our company is ready to offer you a high price for the RSFSR chervonets.

CHERVONETS, nza, m. 1. A set of any ten items. In the mornings he makes a ducat (runs 10 km). For such a tower it is necessary, not a gold piece (the term of imprisonment is 10 years). 2. A policeman (more often about a traffic policeman). the gold is worth it, slow down. General utilities ... ... Dictionary of Russian argo

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Chervonets- (from the Polish czerwony zloty, literally red gold, i.e. a coin made of the highest-grade gold), 1) the general name of foreign gold coins (ducats, zekhinov) circulating in pre-Petrine Russia. 2) Russian gold coin 3 rubles ... ... Illustrated Encyclopedic Dictionary

- (from Polish. czerwony zloty letters. red, gold, that is, a coin of the finest gold) ... 1) the general name of foreign gold coins (ducats, tsekhinov) in pre-Petrine Russia2)] Russian gold coin of 3 ruble denomination in 18th-19th centuries ... Big Encyclopedic Dictionary

CHERVONETS, chervonets, husband. 1. Gold coin (5 or 10 rubles; outdated). "Pyatakov give a handful of three chervonets to the peasant in exchange." Krylov. || only pl. Generally coins, gold, money (obsolete). “And your gold pieces have not been stolen from defenseless orphans and ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary

CHERVONETS, nza, husband. 1. Gold coin (in denominations of 3, 5 or 10 rubles at different times) (outdated). 2. From 1922 to 1947: a banknote of 10 rubles (now colloquial). 3. The amount of ten rubles (colloquial). Red price h. | adj. red, ... ... Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary

Russian gold coin, 3 x rub. dignity, the same as the Italian ducat or sekhin, first began to be minted with you under PetraVel. in 1701, 93 samples were minted, later 941/10 and 942/3, samples. In the XIX century. until 1841 Ch. were minted in St. Petersburg. and Warsaw from ... ... Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron

With five. Zharg. injection. Fifteen years in prison. BBI, 278; Baldaev 2, 141. Small chervontsy. Zharg. injection. Shuttle. Lice. BBI, 278; Baldaev 2, 141 ... A large dictionary of Russian sayings

Nza; m. 1. Spread. In Russia before 1917: a gold coin in denominations of five and ten rubles. 2. In the USSR from 1922 to 1947: a banknote of ten rubles in circulation. // Spread. About a ten-denomination note ... encyclopedic Dictionary

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The Gold Sower "Sower" is a gold coin issued since 1923 by the State Bank of the USSR. It had a face value of 10 rubles and was introduced with the aim of stabilizing the Soviet currency both domestically and on the world financial market.

The coin got its name - "The Sower" because of the image of a peasant-sower against the background of working factories and the rising sun, located on the reverse of the chervonets.

1 ducat 1923

Gold ducats issued in 1923 are the first coins of the famous Soviet series "Sower". They were issued in order to strengthen the Union's monetary system and compete with the ever-growing dollar in the international banking environment.

Coins of this issue were minted using the standards of the pre-revolutionary Nikolaev 10-ruble gold sample of 1897. The reverse received the image of a peasant-sower against the background of a Soviet industrial city, and on the obverse there was a drawing of the coat of arms of the RSFSR.

• Circulation: 2 751 000, pcs
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (PL)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1975

52 years later, the State Bank of the USSR made a decision to resume the issue of the famous "Sower" coins. The new chervonets were issued as investment coins and were completely identical to their predecessors, issued in 1923. Drawings, inscriptions, their arrangement - everything was identical. The same male sower against the background of the sun and the city and the coat of arms on the back. Differences were only in the year of issue on the reverse.

• Circulation: 250,000, pcs
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1976

Soviet gold 10-ruble coins of the 76th year of issue are investment coins. The resumption of the minting of these banknotes was carried out in preparation for the Olympics-80, at which they were planned to be sold to tourists in the form of souvenirs. Also, these monetary units were widely used in foreign trade operations.

A well-known peasant-sower remained on the obverse of the coin, and the coat of arms of the RSFSR was minted on the reverse side, under which was the inscription "RSFSR", and above it - "Workers of all countries, unite!"

• Circulation: 1 million, pcs
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1977

The 1977 chervontsy were minted at two mints - Moscow and Leningrad. Both 10-ruble gold configurations are completely identical to each other and have the same value among collectors.

New-made coins became an exact copy of the "Sower", which was produced since 1923. On the reverse, a drawing of a male sower was applied, which became a symbol of the peasantry of the Soviet era, and on the obverse was the main symbol of the RSFSR - the coat of arms and a call to the proletarians of all countries to unite.

• Circulation: 1 million, pcs.
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1978

The 1978 Gold Sower refers to investment monetary resources used in the former Soviet Union. The coin of this series is an exact copy of the one that began to be produced in 1923.

On the obverse of the chervonets, the coat of arms and the inscription of the RSFSR, as well as the main slogan of the proletariat, which read: "Workers of all countries, unite!" On the reverse was an engraving of a peasant peasant who sows a field when the sun rises. Above it was the inscription "One ducat", and on the left, near the sower, the year of issue was applied - 1978.

• Circulation: 1 million, pcs.
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1979

The 1979 coin belongs to the new-made chervonets of the Sower series, which are minted by the State Bank of the Soviet Union with the aim of using them to strengthen its banking system and to carry out international settlements in the “gold equivalent”.

The coin has an image of a male sower on its reverse, the prototype of which is a sculpture by the Soviet sculptor I.D. Shadra "Sower", which he blinded from the Ural peasant. On the left, in the lower gold area, the year of its issue is indicated - 1979. To fill in the obverse, the coat of arms of the RSFSR and the popular slogan of that time - "Workers of all countries, unite!" Were used.

• Circulation: 1 million, pcs
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (MMD)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1980 (LMD)

In 1980, the Leningrad Mint continued to issue gold ducats with a denomination of 10 rubles. These coins were supposed to be used primarily for external payments, as well as for sale to tourists who arrived at the 1980 Olympics. True, it was not possible to obtain a large profit from their sale as souvenirs, since the cost was slightly higher than the gold used for the production of the coin.

The well-known "Sower", which began to be minted back in 1923, became a prototype for metal ducats of the 80th year.

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pieces
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1980 (MMD)

In 1980, the Moscow Mint minted coins of the famous "Sower" series. They were released as Proof and UNC. Gold chervonets were supposed to be used for settlements on external financial obligations, as well as for sale as souvenir coins at the Olympic Games.

The new "Sower" was an exact copy of the 1923 10-ruble gold coins. It is distinguished by the symbol of the peasantry on the reverse in the form of a man-sower and the world-famous slogan of the Soviet proletariat - "Workers of all countries, unite!"

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pcs.
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (MMD)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1981 (LMD)

The chervontsy coins of this year were minted by the Leningrad Mint and belong to one of the most expensive coins of the Sower series. These newly-made Soviet banknotes played the role of investment financial resources of the USSR, and were also often used to carry out foreign economic settlements.

The 81-year coin is the twin brother of the tsar's chervonets - it completely retains the drawing of a peasant-sower, which was on the first items of 1923, as well as the symbol of the Soviet proletariat in the form of the coat of arms of the RSFSR and the slogan of the unity of the proletarians of all republics and other countries.

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pcs.
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (L.M.D)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1981 (MMD)

These metal banknotes were issued by the Moscow Mint as investment funds, with the help of which the Union made settlements with external trading partners, and also ensured a stable state of gold and foreign exchange reserves.

The coins of this year of issue have retained a complete resemblance to the gold pieces of 1923. Similar inscriptions and designs on the reverse and obverse, the same metal, similar embossing technologies. The only difference is the year of issue of money - 1981, the inscription of which is located on the reverse in the lower part.

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pieces
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (MMD)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1982 (LMD)

The 1982 coins of the minting became the last "Sowers", which were issued by the Leningrad Mint. In general use, these banknotes were not used in financial calculations - they served only as investment capital of the State Bank of the USSR.

The gold 10-ruble coins of the 82nd year completely preserved the idea of ​​their predecessors - to show the revival of the Soviet Union. This is evidenced by the drawing of the sower against the background of a plowed field, working plants and the rising sun. The obverse retains the main appeal of the proletariat, as well as the emblem of the RSFSR.

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pieces
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (L.M.D)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)

1 ducat 1982 (MMD)

The 1982 10-ruble gold coins were the last chervontsy "Sower" minted at the Moscow Mint. These monetary units were used only in the role of investment capital - they did not come into wide use.

As on the coins of the 23rd year of issue, the coat of arms of the RSFSR, above which the call of that time "Workers of all countries, unite!", Was preserved on the obverse. On the opposite side there is a symbol of the industriousness of the Soviet people - a peasant who sows a plowed field when the sun rises, and factories and factories are working in the distance. Above this symbol the inscription “One ducat” was minted, and in the lower one - the year of issue: 1982.

• Circulation: 500 thousand, pieces
• Weight: 8.603 (± 0.08), g
• Diameter: 22.6 (+0.10 -0.15) mm
• Edge: the inscription "pure gold 1 spool 78.24 shares (MMD)"
• Metal: gold (fineness 900)