In my publications I talk about postage stamps, but today I decided to make an exception, or supplement philately with numismatics.
Yes, I was also fond of collecting coins, but after the loss of the collection due to the robbery of our apartment, I forgot about this hobby but I have left some rubbish in the copper and in the nickel.
Postage stamps, in essence, are the same money, but narrowly focused, although you can take a postage stamp to the post office and receive its denomination in money, a kind of bill of exchange.
Each time, I talk about the face value of a postage stamp, but someone may not have any idea what the coins looked like for which you could purchase this postage stamp.
Today we will see a postage stamp from series Protected Trees and Shrubs, issued in the USSR in 1980.
This postage stamp has a face value of 2 kopecks of the USSR.
I decided to pick up two 1 kopeck coins in my collection that would be older than the postage stamp, which means that, in principle, the purchase and sale of this postage stamp could have taken place with their participation.
Here are two 1977 cupro-nickel coins, 15 millimeters in diameter.
In the first photo you can see the obverse of one coin and the reverse of the second.
Sometimes, in such coins, you can find a flaw, a shift in the obverse and reverse print, which increases the value of these coins, but, unfortunately, my coins are perfect, lol.
This is the case when the quality can be frustrating.
Now, look at the twins, two obverses.
So, the owner of these coins could purchase a postage stamp with a face value of 2 kopecks of the USSR, which depicts Siberian Cedar (Pinus sibirica) and send a letter.
So let's look at a postage stamp.
We see an image of a cedar tree, a branch, needles and cones.
I would say. that one element is missing here, viz. pine nuts, for which this conifer is famous.
This is probably the hardest nut I've tried to crack and get to its core.
This is a difficult task.
Nuts are small if you hit them with a hammer too hard, you flatten it along with the core, you need to get used to this business.
Information about this postage stamp:
Country: USSR.
Subject: # Flora, # Trees, # USSR.
Series: Protected Trees and Shrubs.
Name: Siberian Cedar (Pinus sibirica).
Denomination of a postage stamp: 2 USSR kopek.
Michel's USSR catalog code: 5002.
Episode release date: October 29, 1980.
Perforation: comb 12¼ x 12.
Postage stamp size: 42 x 30 mm.
Printing technology: Offset lithography.
Circulation: 8,400,000.
Estimated price for a clean postage stamp: $ 0.14 - $ 0.22.
Estimated price for a canceled postage stamp: $ 0.04 - $ 0.13.
Photo: original from 
Clean postage stamp
To be continued!
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