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5 and 10 rubel Ag Moskow Olympic games 1980 set UNC

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5 and 10 rubel Ag 28 coins UNC set
5*14 rubel
Silver 900
Weight: 16,67g
Diameter: 33 mm
10*14 rubel
Silver 900
Weight: 33.30 g
Diameter: 39 mm

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The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (Russian: И́гры XXII Олимпиа́ды, tr. Igry XXII Olimpiady), was an international multi-sport event held in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russia.

The 1980 Games were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Eastern Europe, and remain the only Summer Olympics held there. They were also the first Olympic Games to be held in a socialist country, and the only Summer Games to be held in such a country until 2008 in Beijing, China. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC Presidency of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin.

Led by the United States at the insistence of US President Jimmy Carter, 65 countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, though some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games under the Olympic Flag.] This prompted the Soviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics.