3 kopecks 1956 year
In 1956, the penultimate time a three-kopeck coin of the 1935 model was issued, and the last one where the state emblem with 16 ribbons flaunts on the front side of the coin.
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5 kopecks 1961 year
5 kopecks of 1961 were minted not just in large, but in huge circulation - about one billion. Interestingly, 550 million five kopecks with the date 1961 were issued in advance in 1960, and 300 million in 1961 in the first year of the monetary reform.
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