{"product_id":"sve-packaged-stalinsl4cnbox-b-92604","title":"Stalin’s “Death Sentence” Coins: Box of 4 Russian Silver Coins (Four-Coin Box)","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px\"\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eStalin’s “Death Sentence” Coins: Box of 4 Russian Silver Coins (Four-Coin Box)\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1930, in the midst of an economic crisis, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin decided that all hard-currency silver coins in circulation would be replaced by base-metal copper\/nickel coins. This met with resistance, as people began to hoard the silver coins like these: 10 and 20 kopeks from the late Romanov period (1867-1917), 15 kopeks from the short-lived Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (1923-24), and 20 kopeks from the Soviet Union. -Dissatisfied with the efficiency of the mass confiscation, he went to his get-to strategy for problem solving: mass murder. Stalin wrote to his protégé, Molotov, ”The agents ”probably clamped down on a few cashiers and let it go at that… It is thus important to a) fundamentally purge the Finance [Ministry] and Gosbank (Central Bank) bureaucracy. b) Definitely shoot two or three dozen [bureaucrats]…, including several dozen common cashiers; c) continue [KGB] operations throughout the USSR that are aimed at seizing“ the silver. The Kopeks in this set are among the few, rare survivors of this period. The Soviets never again issued a circulating silver coin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhoto notice:\u003c\/strong\u003e Representative stock photos may be used. You will receive the product type, package, grade, and condition stated in this listing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne product or lot supplied per purchase. Ships with tracking. Combined orders may require recalculated shipping based on total packed weight and package size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"SVEGroup Coin Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43195785576510,"sku":"PKG-92604","price":139.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0664\/8761\/5550\/files\/stalin4cnbox-bF.jpg?v=1786810031","url":"https:\/\/coins.svegroup.net\/products\/sve-packaged-stalinsl4cnbox-b-92604","provider":"SVEGroup Coin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}