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Please post a picture (if you want to) of your communist/socialist coins and notes in your collection I will post mine shortly as soon as I improve the lightning conditions in my room. They can be circulating or non-circulating but from those countries eg DPRK, China, Cuba, East Germany, Angola and other countries similar to that.
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For example these are my coins from the DPRK.
Standard issue, Inflation issue (after 2.16 to the US dollar peg was removed in 2001) And the current circulating issue but this is the “specimen” issue.
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引用する: "Alfred_435"Soviet Union - 10 Kopecks - 1961
Soviet Union - 3 Kopecks - 1952
Soviet Union - 50 Rubles - 1961
Soviet Union - 10 Rubles - 1961, 1961, 1991
Soviet Union - 5 Rubles - 1961, 1961, 1961, 1991
Soviet Union - 3 Rubles - 1961
Soviet Union - 1 Ruble - 1991, 1991
Nice ones very classic.
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These are most of my Cuban coins the higher grade ones are stored away but the last two photos are a picture of one of the high grade ones.
Top coins CUP, middle INTUR coins and the bottom coins are the CUC coins my dream Cuban coin is the 1999 5 pesos CUC.
The last coin would get at least a MS60.
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I only have 2 socialist countrys in my collection
1. Cuba
- 10 and 25 centavos
2. Yugoslavia
- 1, 2, 5 and 10 dinar coins of the hard dinar
This is my high grade 100 Dinara from 1988
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Every Socialist, Communist, Peoples Republic and Fascist Coins currency and country I could pick. I have a few banknotes and silver coins but ones torn and blandly stored away.
When I first got into collecting World banknotes, communist nations didn't really engage me since I found many their designs a bit drab, such as the notes from Yugoslavia:
But then I bought a few notes from Cuba (places I've travelled to):
and I started to reconsider my whole "drab" bias. So I got a few notes from China. I started out cheap:
& then started to get one of their older series & I must admit I admire the simplicity of several of their series:
Yes, the old Czechoslovakian series are quite attractive (like the older Yugoslavian notes). I still cannot figure out why I held such a negative bias against them when I started collecting (I guess I was just looking for reasons to scratch off certain nations).
Your 10 Korun note @ahkai is very attractive. I got this 100 Korun last year:
which reminds me of the St. Charles bridge & Prague.
And this one claimed to be autographed by them too.
Wow! Really nice (& great to have).
I saw an article about the Chinese lady (a young teen at the time) who modelled for the Chinese 1 Yuan (P-874c I posted above) & reading that article is what made me want to get an example.
And this one claimed to be autographed by them too.
Wow! Really nice (& great to have).
I saw an article about the Chinese lady (a young teen at the time) who modelled for the Chinese 1 Yuan (P-874c I posted above) & reading that article is what made me want to get an example.
Yes, I remember that. That was also based on a real life person too, and at that time, they claimed that she was the first woman tractor driver. I believe, it be read - First known woman tractor driver in China🤣
BTW, that autographed note came from the Banknote website. I wonder who got that note?
Yes, the old Czechoslovakian series are quite attractive (like the older Yugoslavian notes). I still cannot figure out why I held such a negative bias against them when I started collecting (I guess I was just looking for reasons to scratch off certain nations).
Your 10 Korun note @ahkai is very attractive. I got this 100 Korun last year:
which reminds me of the St. Charles bridge & Prague.
Interestingly, such view of the Charles bridge and the Prague castle appeared on most Czechoslovakian banknotes of that denomination from 1920 to 1993, regardless on the current political situation (even during the nazi occupation). Only the obverse experienced several significant changes, ranging from Slavic allegories in 1920 to the first communist president of Czechoslovakia in 1989.
In relation to the story of the Czechoslovak 10 korun banknote , I'd like to share the story of the 1962 (and later 1974) Bulgarian 2 Leva banknote - It is the only banknote to feature an actual living Bulgarian issued during Communism.
In 1960 the photographer Lyubomir Charakchiev came to a winery in Suhindol to take some pictures of workers.One of the pictures he took was of a young girl called Kina Garbova . The shot of Kina was sent to a photo exhibition in the GDR , where It won first place .
Someone decided that the award winning photograph should be put on one of the new banknotes to come out in 1962 , the denomination being the 2 leva .Kina was not informed of this and only learned that her likeness had been used on the banknotes when her father-in-law recognised her on the new banknotes . Lyubomir Charakchiev confirmed that that was indeed his photo of Kina that was used on make the 2 leva . KIna sought compensation and received 200 leva for the use of her likeness. Kina says that over the years she had signed hundreds of 2 leva banknotes for people who wanted her autograph - friends and strangers , Bulgarians and foreigners alike . Kina is still alive and well and continues to live in Suhindol .
And an added fun fact - Kina was born on 9th September 1944 -on the exact day and year when the Communist forces seized power in Bulgaria.
Below - a picture of how Kina looks today compared to her portrait that graced Bulgaria's currency for decades .
Yes, the old Czechoslovakian series are quite attractive (like the older Yugoslavian notes). I still cannot figure out why I held such a negative bias against them when I started collecting (I guess I was just looking for reasons to scratch off certain nations).
which reminds me of the St. Charles bridge & Prague.
Some of the Czechoslovakia notes are just beautiful. Here are two of the nicely designed notes
Bird eye view of Bratislava
I asked one of my friends in Slovakia and he provided me with the name of all the places depicted on this note.
Yes, the old Czechoslovakian series are quite attractive (like the older Yugoslavian notes). I still cannot figure out why I held such a negative bias against them when I started collecting (I guess I was just looking for reasons to scratch off certain nations).
which reminds me of the St. Charles bridge & Prague.
Some of the Czechoslovakia notes are just beautiful. Here are two of the nicely designed notes
Bird eye view of Bratislava
I asked one of my friends in Slovakia and he provided me with the name of all the places depicted on this note.
I agree, the views of Praha and Bratislava (and also other Czech and Slovak cities) on Czechoslovakian banknotes are indeed beautiful. However, my personal favourite is this one:
Although technically not a socialist banknote (put into circulation in 1946), it still circulated for 5 years after the communist party took power. Probably not the prettiest Czechoslovakian banknote, but I like the fact that it depicts the beautiful building of the National Theatre in Prague, as well as one of the greatest Czech composers, Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884).
In relation to the story of the Czechoslovak 10 korun banknote , I'd like to share the story of the 1962 (and later 1974) Bulgarian 2 Leva banknote - It is the only banknote to feature an actual living Bulgarian issued during Communism.
In 1960 the photographer Lyubomir Charakchiev came to a winery in Suhindol to take some pictures of workers.One of the pictures he took was of a young girl called Kina Garbova . The shot of Kina was sent to a photo exhibition in the GDR , where It won first place .
Someone decided that the award winning photograph should be put on one of the new banknotes to come out in 1962 , the denomination being the 2 leva .Kina was not informed of this and only learned that her likeness had been used on the banknotes when her father-in-law recognised her on the new banknotes . Lyubomir Charakchiev confirmed that that was indeed his photo of Kina that was used on make the 2 leva . KIna sought compensation and received 200 leva for the use of her likeness. Kina says that over the years she had signed hundreds of 2 leva banknotes for people who wanted her autograph - friends and strangers , Bulgarians and foreigners alike . Kina is still alive and well and continues to live in Suhindol .
And an added fun fact - Kina was born on 9th September 1944 -on the exact day and year when the Communist forces seized power in Bulgaria.
Below - a picture of how Kina looks today compared to her portrait that graced Bulgaria's currency for decades .
Thanks for sharing the story. It's interesting to know the background of the design 😊
Are these from real life common people as well? These are from the Bulgaria 1951 series. Thanks
Yes and no . Now I have to apologize , I completely forgot about them because this series was in circulation for less than 10 years , and as such has been mostly forgotten , sadly .
So , as far as I could find the woman on the 50 is either anonymous or fictional as I could not find anything about her . However , I believe she might have been a real person as the woman on the 100 has been Identified as Sofka Kovacheva from Lyaskovets . The original picture from which the banknote was made was taken in 1936 when she was 22 . This person also has an interesting story - after the photo was taken she married and after the communist takeover her husband was declared an enemy of the people and a Bourgeoisie by the new authorities for his wine business and was stripped of his business ( a fate that fell on many business men when communism came ) . She was declared guilty by association ( that's communism for you ) and exiled from her home in Sofia .She only found out that she was on the banknotes once they started to circulate . It emerged that no one had asked her if she wanted to be on the banknotes or not and that the entire thing had happened without her permission.
So how did an enemy of the people end up on the back of the 100 leva ? The story is interesting - The photographer who took her picture was asked to provide pictures to be used as the back of the new banknotes and one of the pictures he decided to show the committee was the picture of Sofka . Apparently neither he , nor the committee knew who the smiling girl in the photo was , or the status the authorities had branded her with , since they chose her photo for the banknote .
After the truth of who the girl on the back was came out , something interesting happened - No, Sofka was never paid for the use of her portrait ,something much better happened - Sofka was rehabilitated by the authorities , allowed to return to her home and even given a job in the post service .
Are these from real life common people as well? These are from the Bulgaria 1951 series. Thanks
Yes and no . Now I have to apologize , I completely forgot about them because this series was in circulation for less than 10 years , and as such has been mostly forgotten , sadly .
So , as far as I could find the woman on the 50 is either anonymous or fictional as I could not find anything about her . However , I believe she might have been a real person as the woman on the 100 has been Identified as Sofka Kovacheva from Lyaskovets . The original picture from which the banknote was made was taken in 1936 when she was 22 . This person also has an interesting story - after the photo was taken she married and after the communist takeover her husband was declared an enemy of the people and a Bourgeoisie by the new authorities for his wine business and was stripped of his business ( a fate that fell on many business men when communism came ) . She was declared guilty by association ( that's communism for you ) and exiled from her home in Sofia .She only found out that she was on the banknotes once they started to circulate . It emerged that no one had asked her if she wanted to be on the banknotes or not and that the entire thing had happened without her permission.
So how did an enemy of the people end up on the back of the 100 leva ? The story is interesting - The photographer who took her picture was asked to provide pictures to be used as the back of the new banknotes and one of the pictures he decided to show the committee was the picture of Sofka . Apparently neither he , nor the committee knew who the smiling girl in the photo was , or the status the authorities had branded her with , since they chose her photo for the banknote .
After the truth of who the girl on the back was came out , something interesting happened - No, Sofka was never paid for the use of her portrait ,something much better happened - Sofka was rehabilitated by the authorities , allowed to return to her home and even given a job in the post service .
@Alrumon, that you for the interesting story. Now I will have to get one for my collection 😁
christianvlThe first (1924 - silver) and the last (1991 - copper-nickel) normal circulating Roubles from the Soviet Union:
M.Mussorgski Conmemorative Rouble 1989:
Great 1924 rouble coin! First for the Soviet Union indeed, but not the first communist coins, those are the 1921-1923 Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic series as far as I know. I always found it fascinating that they had 15 kopeek coins besides 10 and 20, yet that is a pre-communist tradition. I only just noticed that the p in kopeek on my 20 kopeek coin is missing a leg, making it look like KOGEEK… Not sure whether that is an error or PMD.
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This is an interesting one, a banknote from one of the first so-called “revolutionary base areas”, printed (?) by the Second Farmers' Bank of Chaishanzhou Special District in 1927 on a piece of bamboo cloth.
This is an interesting one, a banknote from one of the first so-called “revolutionary base areas”, printed (?) by the Second Farmers' Bank of Chaishanzhou Special District in 1927 on a piece of bamboo cloth.
And it's washable too, right, even it's not recommended 🤣
This is an interesting one, a banknote from one of the first so-called “revolutionary base areas”, printed (?) by the Second Farmers' Bank of Chaishanzhou Special District in 1927 on a piece of bamboo cloth.
And it's washable too, right, even it's not recommended 🤣
Are these from real life common people as well? These are from the Bulgaria 1951 series.
-Super notes from Bulgia @ahkai & thanks for the update on the Chinese 1 Yuan model. Sad to hear she's passed away.
This is an interesting one, a banknote from one of the first so-called “revolutionary base areas”, printed (?) by the Second Farmers' Bank of Chaishanzhou Special District in 1927 on a piece of bamboo cloth.
BTW: I apologize for posting that stamped 100 Korun was from the CR (1993 I believe). It is not technically suitable for this thread since I believe that was why it was stamped (indicating it was from the new democratic Czech Republic) With stamp or printed stamp it is not from the communist controlled Czechoslovakia era. Notes without stamp would be more appropriate here. I'll keep looking.
I have hundreds of coins from socialist countries, probably all from Albania to Yugoslavia. Aptil last year I visited Transnistria. They still have the hammer and sickle on their flag. For three days I travelled the region from north to south. Very odd place.
I have hundreds of coins from socialist countries, probably all from Albania to Yugoslavia. Aptil last year I visited Transnistria. They still have the hammer and sickle on their flag. For three days I travelled the region from north to south. Very odd place.
Oddly, I got lots of socialist coins from my friends and family over the years and I have never seen a single one from Albania among them. Guess that not many people from other socialist states were going there for a vacation, unlike they were to Yugoslavia or East Germany.
Anyway, I'd like to ask if Transnistrian coins and banknotes are actually circulating. From what I've heard, most of the pieces are made only for collectors, but I've never been there to check personally.
By the way, Austria also has hammer and sickle on its coat of arms until today, although for different reasons :)
My favourites are the notes I got from circulation in Romania, which I visited in 1990. I remember it was really difficult to find notes in decent grade - these were the best I could find. I got four sequential 100 Lei notes in AU grade on one occasion, two pictures below. Every other 100 Lei note I came across was VG to fine grade at best.
In those days you would get 100 Lei for 1 USD if you knew where to go. The official rate was 36 Lei = 1 USD.
Anyway, I'd like to ask if Transnistrian coins and banknotes are actually circulating. From what I've heard, most of the pieces are made only for collectors, but I've never been there to check personally.
Yes, they do, and it's thr only currency circulating there. No Moldovan lei or Russian rubles are accepted as payment. The first thing you do when you enter the region is to exchange your leu/euro/dollar to PMR. And don't forget to exchange back before you leave, asthe PMR is not accepted, or recognised, anywhere outside the region.
I almost missed my exit deadline (you don't just get a date, you also get a time whwn to exit), so I forgot to change back. So now I have a couple of hundred PMR at home just laying around. 😅
I have hundreds of coins from socialist countries, probably all from Albania to Yugoslavia. Aptil last year I visited Transnistria. They still have the hammer and sickle on their flag. For three days I travelled the region from north to south. Very odd place.
I forgot about Transnistria, i have these four coins from there
Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?
I have hundreds of coins from socialist countries, probably all from Albania to Yugoslavia. Aptil last year I visited Transnistria. They still have the hammer and sickle on their flag. For three days I travelled the region from north to south. Very odd place.
I forgot about Transnistria, i have these four coins from there
These are sold in souvenir sets in Transnistria. I've heard they are supposed to still be circulating, but I didn't see a single one. I do have the set, though. 😊
I have hundreds of coins from socialist countries, probably all from Albania to Yugoslavia. Aptil last year I visited Transnistria. They still have the hammer and sickle on their flag. For three days I travelled the region from north to south. Very odd place.
I forgot about Transnistria, i have these four coins from there
These are sold in souvenir sets in Transnistria. I've heard they are supposed to still be circulating, but I didn't see a single one. I do have the set, though. 😊
Most of them probably were taken out of circulation by collectors. When someone I know went to the Bahamas, they were trying to find a 15 cent for me, but they couldn’t find any
Did you know that Pluto is still a planet in Illinois and New Mexico and has de facto recognition as a planet in Arizona?
Anyway, I'd like to ask if Transnistrian coins and banknotes are actually circulating. From what I've heard, most of the pieces are made only for collectors, but I've never been there to check personally.
Yes, they do, and it's thr only currency circulating there. No Moldovan lei or Russian rubles are accepted as payment. The first thing you do when you enter the region is to exchange your leu/euro/dollar to PMR. And don't forget to exchange back before you leave, asthe PMR is not accepted, or recognised, anywhere outside the region.
I almost missed my exit deadline (you don't just get a date, you also get a time whwn to exit), so I forgot to change back. So now I have a couple of hundred PMR at home just laying around. 😅
It reminds me a bit of the interwar Danzig Gulden, less than half million people on a very small piece of land using their own currency. I didn't know there were such rules for departure, thanks for sharing this information (actually, it seems much more strict than the rules in socialist countries 40 years ago).
Here you go, some coins from my world collections. Back on CCF we did a country hopping thread in which a world tour continually went on with each poster showing a coin from a neighbouring country, hence some close ups here of obscure countries and coins.
20 Zloty of Poland 1976 - Marcel Nowotko - Cupro nickel, a largish coin soon replaced by a banknote.
China, Peoples Republic of - I yuan 1993 of the 1990s type - steel
China again - a circulating commem 5 Yuan of Aluminium Brass showing the Forbidden Palace in Beijing, a big beautiful coin.
Cuba $1 Peso - Money used for tourists from Capitalist nations showing a tourist village
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Soviet Union - 1 Kopeck 1974 - the smallest coin of the series.
And a rouble commemorative from 1977 prospective for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow.
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) - 10 Pfennig 1981.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Small change from Czechsolovakia (1989 before the split) and another Soviet coin (All had same reverse).
China 2 Fen (2/100 of a Yuan), these aluminium coins for 1, 2, 5 Fen lasted from the 50s until the 2010s.
More Yugoslavian Dinara
Romanian People's republic, from early in the Ceaucescus reign.
Tanzania - 4 coin set, not traditionally considered communist, but they had Nyerere run a thing called “Ujamaa” which was African style “co operative economics” and it bankrupted the country. They also had advisers from China, Cuba and the Soviet Union, so I think it counts.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) is still missing in this thread. The country had a coin with 10 scallops, just like Tanzania, which is rare in World coinage.
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Recently I bought some German Notgeld coin in small lots of 4, 5, 6 or 7 coins. When they arrived, to my surprise, one of the coins turned out to carry a hammer and sickle.
On the Wikipedia page Hammer and sickle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle) a 1884 coin from Chile is shown with a hammer and sickle in the wreath. A series of Chilean coins thus carries what can be seen as the earliest representation of the symbol of communism on coins. Also some 1918 Caucasus rebel papermoney exists with the symbol at the bottom of a wreath, for example: N#230060.
Still, this German Landkreis (like district or county) Weissenfels coin turns out to be the first money ever issued carrying the hammer and sickle by itself, after the revolution started in October 1917. Very close to Landkreis Weissenfels is the Leunawerke (chemical factory in Leuna), one of four places in Saxony where a failed communist uprising took place organized by the German Communist Party (KPD) in 1921 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_Action). Considering the coin, it seems something was brewing already in 1918 in the part of Germany that later became the GDR.
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Is there such a thing as a communist country nowadays? I am just wondering!😁
Not really, but countries that consider themselves communist.
Peoples Republic of China
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Cuba
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos
Korean Democratic Republic (North Korea)
The Peoples Republic of Vietnam
Update - Just remembered Belarus, Russia's b#tch - borderline communistic due to crazy dictateur - Alexander Lukashenko/Lukashenka - who has been in power since 1994 and claims 100% of people vote for him. The country is repressed, oppressed, suppressed and depressed. They still have all the communist USSR krap up everywhere and statues of Lenin etc.
It has virtually no human rights and people live like its 1964 USSR except with cellphones and vodka.
Belarussian coins I just bought - notice that communist star on their obverses.
It is not fully communist but a Presidential republic as the main party in power is the Belarus Communist Party which is described as Marxist Leninist in Wikipedia and Lukashenka is its leader. The party only formed in 1996, so its not soviet and Belarus like other ex Soviet stans is nominally a Independent state with its own language and culture - yet essentially a dialect of Russia and its pretty much under Putin's control. They never oppose Russia in anything (Supporting Russia against Ukraine) and pretty much need Putin's permission to do anything.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Is there such a thing as a communist country nowadays? I am just wondering!😁
Absolutely!
countries that consider themselves communist.
Peoples Republic of China
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Cuba
The Peoples Democratic Republic of Laos
Korean Democratic Republic (North Korea)
The Peoples Republic of Vietnam
Note how countries like “the Peoples Democratic Republic of Cuba” still call themselves “democratic” even though they're anything but. It was like that in East Germany (while citizens were risking their lives to leave).
I don't think one feels the threat of a communist regime or dictatorship unless one pushes their buttons. This means: publicly questioning/challenging their justice system, or their policing, freedom of speech, etc. Also if one wishes to challenge the government directly. When I visited Cuba our plane had a military escort (as did the passengers disembarking from the plane) so you feel it but its almost an abstract thing. Once you get to your hotel the government's presence is much lower keyed, but once you talk to the people, you get an idea of what you have back home (which we take for granted). You meet doctors & lawyers who are paid the same wages as a school bus driver.
I watched Maria Ressa speak about how lax people were becoming over their awareness of “threats to democracy” during the presidential reign of Duterte in the Philippines (before “Boomboom”) in an interview after her Nobel Peace prize win. She stated emphatically that fake news on social media, freedom of the press & election tampering were more rampant than any time before & many democratic nations were becoming more oppressive/less democratic (rather than the other way around). She thought that communist nations & dictatorships were expanding globally (rather than vice-versa). I would agree with her (& that we have to be careful/vigilant where we choose to travel). There are a lot of posts I read on social media about going to war-torn countries or posts about fantastic times in nations with dictatorships & I just scratch my head (its hardly being aware or vigilant).
Here's a screenshot of the Reporters without Borders 2024 Freedom of Press Index:
Colleagues - There is not a single communist country in the world.
There are only socialist states-countries that are building a communist future. But none of them have reached that level yet. In communism there will be no need for coins and banknotes, everyone will take from the common as much as they need for their life.
( This is what they taught me at the military school in Czechoslovakia during the socialist era of the 1980s. The subject was the history of communism, and the subject was the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (I personally did not join the party, I was not prepared).
A funny example:
The comrades in the leadership decided to test whether the communist society was already built. So they closed one major city for the experiment:
People went to work and children to school as normal. Then they went to the store to get what they needed.
evaluation of the experiment:
people took everything, baby food home to feed pigs in bags. televisions - washing machines - everything - by attack, shuka disappeared from the counters, whiskey, they took everything for storage. Some comrades also demanded wives - if everything is common - then everything.
The tragedy and execution of the petitioners (the state where it happened probably needs no introduction)
Next, our famous socialist hundred-crown banknote appeared here, which ended up in 4th place as the most beautiful in the world in the competition. Just adding. The woman on the banknote is the designer's wife and he painted her at home and instead of wheat ears she was holding a pillow. The designer was a fellow army officer - his design won. No one knows who the guy depicting the iron smelter is:
Colleagues - There is not a single communist country in the world.
There are only socialist states-countries that are building a communist future. But none of them have reached that level yet. In communism there will be no need for coins and banknotes, everyone will take from the common as much as they need for their life.
( This is what they taught me at the military school in Czechoslovakia during the socialist era of the 1980s. The subject was the history of communism, and the subject was the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (I personally did not join the party, I was not prepared).
A funny example:
The comrades in the leadership decided to test whether the communist society was already built. So they closed one major city for the experiment:
People went to work and children to school as normal. Then they went to the store to get what they needed.
evaluation of the experiment:
people took everything, baby food home to feed pigs in bags. televisions - washing machines - everything - by attack, shuka disappeared from the counters, whiskey, they took everything for storage. Some comrades also demanded wives - if everything is common - then everything.
The tragedy and execution of the petitioners (the state where it happened probably needs no introduction)
Next, our famous socialist hundred-crown banknote appeared here, which ended up in 4th place as the most beautiful in the world in the competition. Just adding. The woman on the banknote is the designer's wife and he painted her at home and instead of wheat ears she was holding a pillow. The designer was a fellow army officer - his design won. No one knows who the guy depicting the iron smelter is:
Thank you Mimael, and I totally agree with you that there is no such thing as a communist country nowadays. In China, there are more millionaires than some of the nation's entire population, and if this is what you call communism, please tell me where to I sign as I would like to be a millionaire too.🤣
In my younger days, I was told that in communism, if you have two houses and two cows, you will have to give one up each to someone who does not have any, so that everyone is equal. Now, where on earth do those so-called communist countries do that?
Also thank you for the info for that 1961 100 koruna note. I was just wondering if those two persons are based on real life commoners. If you have more details about them, please feel free to share (her full name etc) as I am collecting them too. I do have this note but with only the one that has a stamp adhered onto the note. I will be looking up the original issue.
I have just received the Bulgaria 2 Leva dated 1962 and 1974. I am still missing the one that has the 6-digit serial number P94a.
Agree totally - true communism does away with governments after a short time as the people are meant to govern themselves in a egalitarian fashion. The vital flaw of communism, it does not accommodate for the “selfish gene”. Humans by nature like most intelligent animals, are greedy, devious and live in a “survival of the fittest” mentality. Its part of the reason why people like Trump and Duterte get into power, why we admire people like Musk more than say Obama or a scientist.
Every communist country saw government and control intensify, there was some adherence to communism like so called equal food distribution, banning organised religion, national pride, collectivisation. But there was massive human rights abuses, fear and control through strict surveillance, death and work camps. Governmental paranoia, the emergence of an elite connected to leaders, who had cults of personality (None of that is in the Communist manifesto). Yet the common people had to keep drinking that communist Kool Aid. I am sure any person who lived under a so called communist regime here, was heartfully sick of Lenin, Stalin, Marx, the colour red and cheap clapped out cars along with queues for everything and peppercorn wages.
For true communism to work, you need a very evolved society with people who are truly hive minded, impossible in this age of individuality, unfettered capitalism and greed and universal education. Educate your masses and you get people questioning the status quo all the time. At least in the days of “peasants”, the great unwashed remained illiterate and ignorant and were easy to control. Communism's insistence on compulsory education for the zeks backfired as people became bright enough to question all the propaganda and lies they were served up.
However communist regimes had some successes that the west could replicate like full employment, subsidised healthcare, housing, food and consumer items, national pride and education. Okay it all was flawed or lacking in some way - but to many people, it was the best they ever had. Even now many ex communist places mourn for it, as they had jobs, food and money under it.
10 Communist Florint from Hungary with a happy worker on one side.
5 Zlotch of Poland - Silver and Gold were considered too bourgeois for the zeks and brass and aluminium was the main metal of communist societies. With no metal reserves - inflation often ensued.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
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Ahkai, Your questions led to interesting answers, so thank you for asking. Your comment on Bulgarian 2 leva notes got me to look into my album with spare notes and realized I have both 6 digit and 7 digit 1974 notes for 1, 2, 5 and 10 levas, as well as a 1962 1 leva note that I had overlooked. My two 7 digit 1974 5 leva notes have a colour variety, I'm not sure wether this variety should be mentioned in the comments of the 1974 5 leva page:
Also Romanian banknotes with colour varieties exist. I noticed as well that banknotes circulating in Romania in 1990 often were barely alive. I kept the ‘best worst’ example, almost falling apart, serial number almost unreadable, yet no tape used to keep it together:
The one banknote in my collection that is not just a paper rectangle:
The stories noted by Alrumon and Mimael are great, thanks! I wonder what story there is behind the Yugoslavian girl that appeared at least 3 times:
@ Frenchlover: certainly an interesting pre-revolutionary socialist co-operative token/coin!
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Agree totally - true communism does away with governments after a short time as the people are meant to govern themselves in a egalitarian fashion. The vital flaw of communism, it does not accommodate for the “selfish gene”. Humans by nature like most intelligent animals, are greedy, devious and live in a “survival of the fittest” mentality. Its part of the reason why people like Trump and Duterte get into power, why we admire people like Musk more than say Obama or a scientist.
Every communist country saw government and control intensify, there was some adherence to communism like so called equal food distribution, banning organised religion, national pride, collectivisation. But there was massive human rights abuses, fear and control through strict surveillance, death and work camps. Governmental paranoia, the emergence of an elite connected to leaders, who had cults of personality (None of that is in the Communist manifesto). Yet the common people had to keep drinking that communist Kool Aid. I am sure any person who lived under a so called communist regime here, was heartfully sick of Lenin, Stalin, Marx, the colour red and cheap clapped out cars along with queues for everything and peppercorn wages.
For true communism to work, you need a very evolved society with people who are truly hive minded, impossible in this age of individuality, unfettered capitalism and greed and universal education. Educate your masses and you get people questioning the status quo all the time. At least in the days of “peasants”, the great unwashed remained illiterate and ignorant and were easy to control. Communism's insistence on compulsory education for the zeks backfired as people became bright enough to question all the propaganda and lies they were served up.
However communist regimes had some successes that the west could replicate like full employment, subsidised healthcare, housing, food and consumer items, national pride and education. Okay it all was flawed or lacking in some way - but to many people, it was the best they ever had. Even now many ex communist places mourn for it, as they had jobs, food and money under it.
10 Communist Florint from Hungary with a happy worker on one side.
5 Zlotch of Poland - Silver and Gold were considered too bourgeois for the zeks and brass and aluminium was the main metal of communist societies. With no metal reserves - inflation often ensued.
I’d also like to add that the successes of socialist regimes you mentioned in the last paragraph were also the aim of left-wing govermnets in some partliamentary democracies, such as the ones in Scandinavia. These countries with the long tradition of social democratic governments also used similar symbolics and even similar political vocabulary sometimes, despite not being socialist states. Just some examples: If one looks on Norwegian banknotes issued after WW2, they use pretty much the same topics and same style as some socialist ones-anonymous workers, fishermen etc., working for the wealth of the whole society (of course, they were issued shortly after the war, but still).
Also, the major Norwegian left-wing newspaper is still published under the title Klassekampen (The Class Struggle) nowadays, not mentioning that the Norwegian social democratic party is rather called Arbeidepartiet (Labour party). So in some aspects, a left-wing democratic goverment can resemble a socialist regime and have similar priorities (although I don’t imply they are the same of course).
But more related to numismatics, here are two favourite socialist coins in my collection.
Hungarian 50 fillér, depicting the new Elizabeth bridge in Budapest
1 Kčs (koruna československá) from 1960s, with the 2nd coat of arms of the socialist Czechoslovakia
There is also another story about the people on socialist coins and banknotes, which wasn’t mentioned here I believe. The girl planting a flower on the 1 koruna coin I posted above is based on Bedřiška Synková (born 1935), a young woman living in Prague who was imprisoned in 1955 for leading an illegal scouting organization (young people were obliged to enter the official state organization called Pionýr at that time and other youth organizations were banned). The designer of the coin, Marie Uchytilová-Kučová, heard about this story from the girl’s mother and used the photo of 19-year-old Bedřiška for the new coin design in 1957 (the girl was still in prison for 2 years after the coin entered circulation, by the way). Bedřiška later emigrated to Switzerland in 1968, but has been living in the Czech Republic again since 2021.
The girl on the coin on the left and the coin’s designer on the right
The coin itself had the longest validity in the history of Czechoslovak/modern Czech coinage, being valid from 1957 to 1993, until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. For many people in Czechoslovakia, it was the only 1 Kčs coin they ever used (the obverse was changed in 1960 and again in 1991 to reflect change in the coat of arms, but the reverse design with the girl planting a flower remained unchanged the whole time).
And some other curious facts: Marie Uchytilová-Kučová who designed the coin died on 16th November 1989, exactly the day before the so-called Velvet revolution which started the return to democracy in Czechoslovakia. Despite the revolution, her 1 koruna coin actually used the same socialist design (as seen on my photo above) until 1990 and the first coin of that denomination reflecting social and economic changes at that time bears the year 1991. This new type was only minted with the years 1991 and 1992 and was soon substituted by a completely new type due to the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1993 (the one which is still circulating today).
P.S.– MoneytaneI don’t mean to be rude, but the obverse of a 10 forint coin you posted doesn’t in fact depict a worker, but the Liberty Statue (Szabadság-szobor) in Budapest, erected in 1947 to commemorate the liberation from nazism. You can find more info about it here.
Ahkai, Your questions led to interesting answers, so thank you for asking. Your comment on Bulgarian 2 leva notes got me to look into my album with spare notes and realized I have both 6 digit and 7 digit 1974 notes for 1, 2, 5 and 10 levas, as well as a 1962 1 leva note that I had overlooked. My two 7 digit 1974 5 leva notes have a colour variety, I'm not sure wether this variety should be mentioned in the comments of the 1974 5 leva page:
Also Romanian banknotes with colour varieties exist. I noticed as well that banknotes circulating in Romania in 1990 often were barely alive. I kept the ‘best worst’ example, almost falling apart, serial number almost unreadable, yet no tape used to keep it together:
The one banknote in my collection that is not just a paper rectangle:
The stories noted by Alrumon and Mimael are great, thanks! I wonder what story there is behind the Yugoslavian girl that appeared at least 3 times:
@ Frenchlover: certainly an interesting pre-revolutionary socialist co-operative token/coin!
@E Timmermans - Thank you for sharing. I cannot tell, but it appears that the colour of one note seems stronger than the other one, and I believe I have seen such notes before and I do not believe a separate reference to be given. This is just my opinion.
Ahkai, Your questions led to interesting answers, so thank you for asking. Your comment on Bulgarian 2 leva notes got me to look into my album with spare notes and realized I have both 6 digit and 7 digit 1974 notes for 1, 2, 5 and 10 levas, as well as a 1962 1 leva note that I had overlooked. My two 7 digit 1974 5 leva notes have a colour variety, I'm not sure wether this variety should be mentioned in the comments of the 1974 5 leva page:
Also Romanian banknotes with colour varieties exist. I noticed as well that banknotes circulating in Romania in 1990 often were barely alive. I kept the ‘best worst’ example, almost falling apart, serial number almost unreadable, yet no tape used to keep it together:
The one banknote in my collection that is not just a paper rectangle:
The stories noted by Alrumon and Mimael are great, thanks! I wonder what story there is behind the Yugoslavian girl that appeared at least 3 times:
@ Frenchlover: certainly an interesting pre-revolutionary socialist co-operative token/coin!
@E Timmermans - Thank you for sharing. I cannot tell, but it appears that the colour of one note seems stronger than the other one, and I believe I have seen such notes before and I do not believe a separate reference to be given. This is just my opinion.
Just to clarify, ahkai: I don't think this little difference should be listed as a new type with a new Numista page (so there I agree with you), just that it could be mentioned in the comments of the existing page that colour varieties exist, with the picture as an example. As a courtesy to those who find that to be interesting.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
Ahkai, Your questions led to interesting answers, so thank you for asking. Your comment on Bulgarian 2 leva notes got me to look into my album with spare notes and realized I have both 6 digit and 7 digit 1974 notes for 1, 2, 5 and 10 levas, as well as a 1962 1 leva note that I had overlooked. My two 7 digit 1974 5 leva notes have a colour variety, I'm not sure wether this variety should be mentioned in the comments of the 1974 5 leva page:
Also Romanian banknotes with colour varieties exist. I noticed as well that banknotes circulating in Romania in 1990 often were barely alive. I kept the ‘best worst’ example, almost falling apart, serial number almost unreadable, yet no tape used to keep it together:
The one banknote in my collection that is not just a paper rectangle:
The stories noted by Alrumon and Mimael are great, thanks! I wonder what story there is behind the Yugoslavian girl that appeared at least 3 times:
@ Frenchlover: certainly an interesting pre-revolutionary socialist co-operative token/coin!
@E Timmermans - Thank you for sharing. I cannot tell, but it appears that the colour of one note seems stronger than the other one, and I believe I have seen such notes before and I do not believe a separate reference to be given. This is just my opinion.
Just to clarify, ahkai: I don't think this little difference should be listed as a new type with a new Numista page (so there I agree with you), just that it could be mentioned in the comments of the existing page that colour varieties exist, with the picture as an example. As a courtesy to those who find that to be interesting.
@E. Timmermans, I agree with you. If I have such notes I would also keep both for my collection.
Thanks for reviving and sharing your communist/socialist coins and notes. To be honest some of designs are quite majestic but as mentioned before I think using the designs on low quality muck metal (zinc, aluminium etc) gave them a stigma hence many are overlooked by collectors.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
Colleagues, I still paid in stores with paper banknotes of three crowns and five crowns. Generally, coins of 3 hallaers and three crowns were really impractical in the decimal system.
Three pennies and three crowns were recommended to us by Soviet Russia. We didn't have them between the two wars. They were coins and banknotes that no one wanted to use and they were almost not in circulation. My childhood memory is that I used this banknote to pay for a jam-filled scarf - a delicacy.
I forgot to show again, my famous East German high value banknotes. Previous to 1985, the East German mark had notes up to and including 100 Marks and notes for 200 and 500 Marks were planned and printed, ready for distribution, these were those notes.
The notes themselves looked harmless enough with symbols of happy families and a creche/school on the 200 Mark and a Parliament building and symbol of the DDR on the 500.
However, the govt decided the face values were too high and many encourage capitalist and bourgeois feelings amongst the zeks and decided to hide the notes in a cave for 20 years. After 20 years stacks of the notes were found and sold to collectors, no doubt many were likely destroyed too, as the Ostmark became defunct in 1990 and the former GDR went to using the Westmark of West Germany after a grace period in which Ostmarks could be exchanged 1 for 1 at banks.
Many of the notes have toning marks and slight musty smells. I paid $20 each for them about 4 or 5 years ago.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I forgot to show again, my famous East German high value banknotes. Previous to 1985, the East German mark had notes up to and including 100 Marks and notes for 200 and 500 Marks were planned and printed, ready for distribution, these were those notes.
The notes themselves looked harmless enough with symbols of happy families and a creche/school on the 200 Mark and a Parliament building and symbol of the DDR on the 500.
I have these as well! Probably bought them aroubd the same time as you, if not earlier. I paid 120 SEK for each, so in today's exchange rate it equals to 12.62 USD.
However, the govt decided the face values were too high and many encourage capitalist and bourgeois feelings amongst the zeks and decided to hide the notes in a cave for 20 years. After 20 years stacks of the notes were found and sold to collectors, no doubt many were likely destroyed too, as the Ostmark became defunct in 1990 and the former GDR went to using the Westmark of West Germany after a grace period in which Ostmarks could be exchanged 1 for 1 at banks.
Many of the notes have toning marks and slight musty smells. I paid $20 each for them about 4 or 5 years ago.
You are right those notes were stored along with some unissued military currency notes and all other East Germany notes withdrawn or current (but not released) at that time in bunkers for the moisture to make them decay but by the late 90s early 2000s locals discovered the bunker and took many as safekeeping as only the notes on the top moulded while the ones deep in the pile were still in immaculate condition.
Eventually around the time the Euro (2002ish) was introduced local authorities took all the remaining notes and incinerated them mixed in with household waste.
there’s actually a few pictures online when news Broke out about them disposing the notes.
Hi to whoever is reading this. Did you know that TYPEWRITER (on a QWERTY keyboard) is the longest word you can type using only the letters on one row of the keyboard.
there’s actually a few pictures online when news Broke out about them disposing the notes.
Oh those crazy commies. Were they too cheap to burn them up. Noticed most seem to be 5 and 100 Mark notes from the 1960s in those pictures.
Or did those notes get disposed after communism fell? Either way had anyone stumbled in that cave in 1988 - they would have had a lot of fun at Intershop and the Stasi asking questions where the sudden influx of wealth came from.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
I forgot to show again, my famous East German high value banknotes. Previous to 1985, the East German mark had notes up to and including 100 Marks and notes for 200 and 500 Marks were planned and printed, ready for distribution, these were those notes.
The notes themselves looked harmless enough with symbols of happy families and a creche/school on the 200 Mark and a Parliament building and symbol of the DDR on the 500.
However, the govt decided the face values were too high and many encourage capitalist and bourgeois feelings amongst the zeks and decided to hide the notes in a cave for 20 years. After 20 years stacks of the notes were found and sold to collectors, no doubt many were likely destroyed too, as the Ostmark became defunct in 1990 and the former GDR went to using the Westmark of West Germany after a grace period in which Ostmarks could be exchanged 1 for 1 at banks.
Many of the notes have toning marks and slight musty smells. I paid $20 each for them about 4 or 5 years ago.
However for coins the catagory ‘never issued coins’ unfortunately does not exist. There is a ‘solved’ forum discussion on this matter, but it did not lead to introducing the category ‘never issued coins’: https://en.numista.com/forum/topic151612.html
There is a beautiful series of 1975 Mozambique coins that was minted but never issued for circulation (Mozambique became ‘communist’ in 1975), as well as a number of 1990 Hungarian coins that were minted (same size and metal as the communist ones, just with ‘NÉP’ omitted, meaning ‘people'), but never issued for circulation. Example of a 1975 Mozambique coin listed as ‘regular circulation coins’.: N#19621
Example of a 1990 Hungarian coin listed as ‘non-circulation coins’: N#44473
The 1975 Mozambique 50 centimos and 1 and 2.5 metacais coins are out of my budget, but I managed to get the others for affordable prices a couple of years ago. A few years ago the Hungarian non-issued 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 forint coins were sold for a very affordable price, so I've got those too.
Besides coins I love geometry. The avatar consists of each of the 35 hexominoes used precisely once. With the 5 large yellow shapes placed like this, the solution for tiling the remaining 30 hexominoes is unique.
In a way this could be classed as a socialist coin from the English civil war, it is a parliamentary half crown. The first motto of the parliamentarian movement was government for the people by the people
In the footsteps of Offa, I hereby present my humble tuppeny bit to go with his stunning halfcrown.
Known as “Breeches money” as it was like the conjoined shields looked like 17th century pantaloons!
In some ways Commonwealth England was socialist, the nobility and royalty lost all their rights and privileges and many “commoners” got land and stores. They also closed theatres, prepared people for war and controlled what people read and wrote.
But the insistence of attending service (Mainly of the Protestant Puritan) kind was very non socialist and true communists believe religions outside of Marxism and whatever leader is enforcing a cult of personality over, is basically opium for masses and banned.
Plus the death of Cromwell, meant his son Tumbledown Dick became the new supreme leader and lasted just two years. The monarchy came back and 365 years later, still goes strong.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
In a way this could be classed as a socialist coin from the English civil war, it is a parliamentary half crown. The first motto of the parliamentarian movement was government for the people by the people
Nice coin, 1660 last year and Anchor mintmark, a true coin of Tumbledown Dick. Just a few months and the bewigged Charles Stuart would be the new ruler.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
There are indeed some interesting parallels between the Cromwell government and socialist regimes of the 20th century. However, I would be a bit careful in calling his regime socialist, partially because modern socialist regimes did the similar thing.
In Czechoslovakia, communist party celebrated the Hussites (Czech 15th century religious movement which intended to reform the Catholic church and which used egalitarian principles, among other things) and considered them the first communist society.
In a similar fashion, Hungarian socialist regime appropriated György Dózsa (leader of the 16th century peasant revolt) for its own ends. There were probably many other examples, but my point is that socialist regimes often projected their visions of communist society into the past, even though these medieval and early-modern movements existed within the completely different political and social context. Given this, the “socialist” Cromwell regime reminds me a bit what socialist governments themselves were saying.
In any case, coins of the parliamentary England are really interesting and show radical changes of the political order at that time. Thanks for posting them, especially the half crown is in a really nice state.
I got something to add here. Coins I added to my space flight area of interest.
One of the Cuban bullion pieces I have is about a Cuban cosmonaut, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez who flew on Soyuz 38, and spent seven days in orbit aboard Salyut 6 doing science experiments.
I am able to add a second coin featuring another Intercosmos program veteran, this time from Mongolia, who was on Soyuz flight 39. His name is Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa. He is still alive and has been a member of parliament in Mongolia.
Jamais l'or n'a perdu la plus petite occasion de se montrer stupide. -Balzac
I have this Cuban Peso which is issued at the “Capitalist” tourist market.
My guess is has no use for Americans since Trumpalumpa banned it as they have this “It's 1946 - 1952 cold war mentality” again.
Malta 3 mils 1972 - You are probably thing WTF! Malta was communist? Not quite but neer communist as between 1967 and 1987 the country was controlled by the Malta Labour party which was “inspired by Gaddafi (Or however you spell his name)” and had strict censorship, a nationalistic industry programme and they booted out the British army, tried to quash British influence, ban the English language and went full Maltese, along with people being jailed for being too democratic and anti government.
In 1979 the British army were evicted from Malta forcibly with Libyan help and Karen Grech a Maltese girl was murdered on orders of the regime and people marked their mail with X's. Malta entered Eurovision in 1971 and 1972 and finished last and in 1974 declared themselves a Republic and Dom Mintoff was the PM responsible for it all.
Malta became quite poor and repressed and in 1987, he was finally voted out and the English language and ways bought back. Today Malta is a model of democracy and has repudiated its socialistic past.
Tanzania between 1963ish and 1988 was neer communist too, under Mwalimu Julius Nyerere (The man on the coin) started a form of Afro Islamic Communism called Ujaama which turned the country into a collection of collectives of villages and urban factory colonies with lots of help and advice from Communist China, Soviet Union, Cuba and later Mozambique and Angola which were truly communist. The plan was a dismal failure and when Nyerere died in 1988, the country went to the usual African “big man” style dictatorship, not democratic - but more money and western focussed than communism.
Ujama saw extreme nationalism, government taken profits and the destruction of all foreign influences except anything Communist. The British and all the Asian (Indian/Pakistani etc) were kicked out and Arabs were murdered in Zanzibar by John Okello and his goon squads in 1964. Power was concentrated in a group called the Afro Shirazi party led by Abdul Abed Karume and Nyerere himself. Unlike other African communist/socialist states this failed before the Soviet collapse.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Every Socialist, Communist, Peoples Republic and Fascist Coins currency and country I could pick. I have a few banknotes and silver coins but ones torn and blandly stored away.
Worldwide collectionHi Please post a picture (if you want to) of your communist/socialist coins and notes in your collection I will post mine shortly as soon as I improve the lightning conditions in my room. They can be circulating or non-circulating but from those countries eg DPRK, China, Cuba, East Germany, Angola and other countries similar to that.
I collect mainly socialist coin- I’ll send some highlights (mostly non circulation)
a global selection of coins from revolutionary socialist states: Eritrea‘s independence issue, ghana’s Nkrumah 10 shilling (socialist leader of post independence ghana) two Cuban ones commemorating revolutionary figures Fidel and Camilo, a unrelated Yemeni one from the Houthis, which was there when I took the image, and a DPRK one from the commemoration of the establishment of the DPRK
These 5 are coins issued in commemoration of the Communist Party of China. 2011, 2021, and 1991
this troika of coins was issued by the CSSR (czechslovakia) commemorating the birthdays of lenin, Stalin, and Marx, respectively. A great deal were melted down in 1991, but many remain.
These next ones are from the PRC, Belarus (which is the last truly “socialist” legacy state — the president endorses socialism and has close relations to the communist party). Namibia is also ruled by a socialist party. The Nicaraguan one is a coin issued in 1980, 100 cordobas, commemorating the revolution in 1979, with a picture of sandino.
Sorry for low quality Images. If anyone wants some more please ask though.
These 5 are coins issued in commemoration of the Communist Party of China. 2011, 2021, and 1991
