Communists on coins

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Cuba, 10 pesos, 2002.  Lenin.

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Czechoslovakia, 50 korun,1970.  Lenin.

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USSR, 1 rouble, 1967.  50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.  Lenin.

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USSR, 1 rouble, 1970.  Centenary of Lenin's birth.

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USSR, 1 rouble, 1977. 

60th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.  Lenin.

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USSR, 1 rouble, 1988.  Lenin.

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From Wikipedia:

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878-1953), born Ioseb Besarionis dze Dzhugashvili, was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through expanding the functions of his role, while eliminating any opposition. He held this nominal post until abolishing it in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union after establishing the position in 1941.

Under the leadership of Stalin, the concept of socialism in one country became a central tenet of Soviet society. He replaced the New Economic Policy introduced by Lenin in the early 1920s with a highly centralised command economy, launching a period of industrialization and collectivization that resulted in the rapid transformation of the USSR from an agrarian society into an industrial power. However, the economic changes coincided with the imprisonment of several million people in Soviet correctional labour camps and the deportation of many others to remote areas. The initial upheaval in agriculture disrupted food production and contributed to the catastrophic Soviet famine of 1932–1933; known as the Holodomor in Ukraine. In a period that lasted from 1936–39, Stalin instituted a campaign against alleged enemies of his regime called the Great Purge in which hundreds of thousands were executed. Major figures in the Communist Party such as the old Bolsheviks, Leon Trotsky, and several Red Army leaders were killed after being convicted of plotting to overthrow the goverment and Stalin.

In August 1939, after Stalin's attempts to establish an Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance failed, he entered into a pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence in Eastern Europe and allowed the USSR to regain some of its lost territories. However, German forces violated the agreement and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, opening the largest and bloodiest theatre of war in history. Despite heavy human and territorial losses, Soviet forces managed to halt the Nazi incursion after victory in the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad. After defeating the Axis powers on the Eastern Front, the Red Army captured Berlin in May 1945, effectively ending the war in Europe for the Allies. The Soviet Union subsequently emerged as one of two recognized world superpowers, along with the United States. The Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, which Stalin attended, established communist governments loyal to the Soviet Union to be installed in the Eastern Bloc countries as buffer states, which Stalin argued was necessary in case of another invasion of the Soviet Union. The following period saw the beginning of significant tension with the Western world, known as the Cold War. In Asia, Stalin fostered relations with Mao Zedong in China and Kim Il-sung in North Korea, with his rule serving as a model for their newly formed respective governments.

Stalin led the Soviet Union through its post-war reconstruction phase. During this period, the USSR became the second country in the world to successfully develop a nuclear weapon. In the years following his death, Stalin and his regime have been condemned on numerous occasions, most notably in 1956 when his successor Nikita Khrushchev denounced his legacy and initiated a process of de-Stalinization.

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Czechoslovakia, 50 korun, 1949.  Stalin.

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Yugoslavia, 1000 dinar, 1968.  25th anniversary of the Republic of Yugoslavia.

See: Yugoslavia: Tito.

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Tito's 85th birthday. 200 dinar, 1977.

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Yugoslavia, 5000 dinar, 1978.  Mediterranean Games, Split.  Tito.

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Death of Tito, Yugoslavia, 1000 dinar, 1980.

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Yugoslavia, 1000 dinar, 1981.  40th Anniversary of Uprising and Revolution.  Tito.

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Yugoslavia, 250 dinar, 1984.  Winter Olympics at Sarajevo.  Tito.

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Yugoslavia, 100 dinar, 1945.  40th anniversary of liberation.  Tito.