re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I still have a pyatnashka in my wallet, a rare Soviet-era 15-cent coin that you needed to make a phone call in the early 90’s.

Used to cost two kopecks, but then they raised the rate. Problem was, the phones did not take 5 or 10-kopeck pieces, only the 15-kopeck coins.

All of which suddenly disappeared from circulation. If you wanted to make a phone call, you had to go to a kiosk or a vendor and buy one - for ten rubles!

Sounds about right for Soviet Russia.