Soviet Coin | 1991 Fall of USSR

Soviet Coin | 1991 Fall of USSRHistory of the Artifact Original 1991 Soviet Union 3 Kopek Coin the last of their kind to ever be minted. In the morning of the 25th of December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, conceding his tenure to Boris Yelstsin as President of the newly independent Russia. On that same night, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor.

covering around 60 square kilometers

These pins were not just decorative items

Throughout its history

a priestly line that rose to power following the successful revolt of the Maccabees against Seleucid rule in the second century BC

and Turkmenistan and stretched over West Asia

such as wars with the Roman Republic

after which he controversially blamed and persecuted Christians—marking one of the first imperial actions against the new religion

One authentic Soviet Union Soldier's Button

worn by a Russian Soldier during WW1

who ruled Venice from 1328 to 1339

symbolising her role as the protector and personification of a city’s fate

cavalry given its practicality as a shorter and lighter gun to carry on horseback than the cumbersome and awkwardly long muskets that were issued to the infantry