USSR 5 Rubles Silver Coin 1978 Running 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow

USSR 5 Rubles Silver Coin 1978 Running 1980 Olympic Games in MoscowUSSR 5 Rubles Silver Coin

USSR 5 Rubles Silver Coin 1978 Running 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow
Commemorative issue: Games of the 22nd Olympiad in Moscow.

Obverse Design: The USSR’s emblem, the Red Star surrounding the globe, 15 turns of ribbon representing the 15 republics of the Union, the legend, in Cyrillic script, meaning: “U.S.S.R. 5 Roubles”.
Artist: L. S. Kamshilov and P.K. Potapov, modelers.

Reverse: Running: runner and the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium at Luzhniki, Lomonosov Moscow State University in the background, the Olympic emblem and the legend, in Cyrillic script, meaning: “The XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980” and the year 1978.
Artist: V. A. Ermakov.

Edge: Milled.
Mintage: (Proof) 118,353.
Mintage: (Uncirculated) 226,653.

Diameter: 33 mm.
Weight: 16.67 grams.
Thickness: 2.4 mm.
Composition: .900 silver and .100 copper.
Mint Mark: Leningrad and Moscow Mint’s Mintmark.
Struck by Leningrad and Moscow Mint.

Moscow-1980 Olympic Coins
The Moscow Olympics were the first Olympic games to be held in a socialist country. An Act of the Soviet government authorized the Ministry of Finance and the State Bank of the USSR to issue a 28-coin collection of five and ten roubles in proof and uncirculated qualities. There was also six proof and six uncirculated gold 100 roubles, five proof and five uncirculated platinum 150 roubles, and six proof and six uncirculated 1 rouble coins.

Geographic Series

The Olympic motto is the hendiatris Citius, Altius, Fortius, which is Latin for "Faster, Higher, Stronger." The motto was proposed by Pierre de Coubertin on the creation of the International Olympic Committee in 1894.

Series – "Citius" Faster
Silver 5 Rubles 1978 Swimming   Silver 5 Rubles 1978 Running    

Series – "Altius" Higher

Series – "Fortius" Stronger

Series – Sports and grace

Series – Folk sports

Olympic Gold Coins
Gold 100 Rubles 1977 Sport and Peace symbol   Gold 100 Rubles 1980 Olympic Flame Gold 100 Rubles 1978 Central Lenin Stadium Gold 100 Rubles 1978 Krylatskoye Rowing Canal Gold 100 Rubles 1979 Druzhba Multipurpose Arena

Olympic Platinum Coins