World War II Victory 80th Set 2 coins 1 banknote Soviet Kazakhstan China UNC

Three pieces. Two countries. One war that reshaped the world. This set brings together a Chinese commemorative coin, a Kazakhstani commemorative coin, and a Kazakhstani banknote — all issued in 2025 to mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied Victory in World War II. Each piece was struck or printed by its country's official mint or central bank, in uncirculated condition, as issued. Together they form a rare cross-format document of how the Soviet sphere remembers its most defining moment.

The Coins

China 10 Yuan 2025 — 80th Anniversary of WWII Victory

China's 2025 commemorative 10 Yuan is a bimetallic coin issued by the People's Bank of China to mark the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression — China's framing of its WWII experience, which it treats as a distinct and sovereign struggle, not merely a theater of the broader Allied war.

China entered what would become WWII earlier than any other major power. The Second Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 — four years before Pearl Harbor, two years before Germany invaded Poland. By 1945, an estimated 14 to 20 million Chinese civilians and soldiers had died, making China's losses second only to the Soviet Union's among Allied nations. The war left entire provinces depopulated, cities razed, and the political landscape permanently altered — accelerating the conditions that would produce the Communist victory in 1949.

The coin's bimetallic construction — a format China reserves for its most significant commemoratives — signals the weight the government places on this anniversary. The 80th is the first major Victory anniversary issued under Xi Jinping's sustained emphasis on "patriotic education" and the centrality of WWII memory to Chinese national identity.

• Obverse colors: gold-toned center; silver-toned ring
• Central device: National emblem of the People's Republic of China
• Legend: 中华人民共和国 (People's Republic of China)
• Denomination: 10 元 (Yuan)
• Reverse central device: Victory commemorative imagery marking the 80th anniversary
• Years: 1945–2025
• Reverse legend: 中国人民抗日战争暨世界反法西斯战争胜利八十周年纪念 (80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War)
• Composition: Bimetallic
• Issuing entity: People's Bank of China
• Condition: UNC, as issued

Kazakhstan 200 Tenge 2025 — Soviet WWII Victory 80th Anniversary

Kazakhstan's 200 Tenge commemorative is a Spanish flower-shaped bimetallic coin issued by the National Bank of Kazakhstan. Its reverse carries an eternal flame — the central symbol of Soviet war memory — flanked by the anniversary inscription in both Kazakh and Russian.

Kazakhstan's role in the Eastern Front was staggering relative to its population. Approximately 1.2 million Kazakhs were mobilized into the Red Army. More than 600,000 did not return — roughly 10% of the entire population at the time. The Kazakh SSR also served as a critical rear-area industrial and agricultural base: factories evacuated from western Soviet cities were reassembled on the steppe, and Kazakh grain and livestock fed the war effort. Victory Day — May 9 — remains the most emotionally resonant public holiday in Kazakhstan today.

The bilingual legend — ҰЛЫ ЖЕҢІС (Kazakh) and ВЕЛИКАЯ ПОБЕДА (Russian) — captures the coin's dual identity: a post-Soviet nation honoring a Soviet victory that was also, undeniably, its own.

• Obverse colors: gold-toned aluminum brass center; silver-toned copper-nickel ring
• Central device: Coat of arms of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Legend: ҚАЗАҚСТАН РЕСПУБЛИКАСЫ (Republic of Kazakhstan)
• Denomination: 200 ТЕҢГЕ
• Reverse colors: gold-toned center; silver-toned ring
• Reverse central device: Eternal flame
• Anniversary numeral: 80
• Reverse legend: ҰЛЫ ЖЕҢІС (Kazakh) / ВЕЛИКАЯ ПОБЕДА (Russian) — "Great Victory"
• Years: 1945–2025
• Catalog: Numista N#470058
• Composition: Bimetallic — aluminum brass center in copper-nickel ring
• Weight: 7.50 g
• Diameter: 26.00 mm
• Thickness: 1.90 mm
• Shape: Spanish flower
• Technique: Milled
• Orientation: Medal alignment ↑↑
• Mint: Kazakhstan Mint, Ust-Kamenogorsk — mintmark QUB
• Mintage: 10,000,000
• Condition: UNC, as issued

The Banknote

Kazakhstan P-57 1000 Tenge 2025 — 80th Anniversary of the Soviet Victory in WWII

The 1000 Tenge commemorative banknote is the centerpiece of this set. Issued by the National Bank of Kazakhstan in 2025, it is a polymer note — a format Kazakhstan uses exclusively for its most significant commemorative issues — printed to mark the same 80th anniversary as the coin above, but with the full visual and narrative range that only a banknote can carry.

Where the coin distills the memory to a flame and a number, the banknote expands it: imagery of soldiers, monuments, and the iconography of Soviet-era Victory Day culture fills the design. The Eternal Flame motif recurs — connecting the two pieces in this set visually and symbolically.

Kazakhstan does not duplicate its WWII history here — that story is told above. What the banknote adds is format: a legal tender commemorative in polymer, serial-numbered, issued through the banking system, and already being pulled from circulation by collectors. The P-57 designation places it in the Standard Catalog of World Paper Money sequence for Kazakhstani commemorative issues.

• Issuer: National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Denomination: 1000 ТЕҢГЕ
• Commemorative legend: 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
• Years: 1945–2025
• Reverse imagery: Victory monument / eternal flame iconography
• Security features: Polymer substrate with transparent window elements
• Pick number: P-57
• Composition: Polymer
• Issuing entity: National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Currency: Kazakhstani Tenge (1993–date)
• Official language(s): Kazakh (a Turkic language), Russian
• Condition: UNC, as issued