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Re: What's this?

Author: beejay
Date: 2010-10-14 21:22

I had one of these once, when I lived in Brezhnev-era Moscow.
The engraving on the back is indeed the price (tsena) -- 160 rubles.
The ruble at the total official rate equalled 1.40 US dollars. If you had hard currency and access to certain Arab or Cuban diplomats needing to unload their rubles, you could have bought this instrument for the equivalent of 15-20 dollars, maybe less. I don't know what happened to mine. It was probably lost in the move. The pictures certainly brought back a few memories.

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