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1 Kopeck
| Issuer | Russian Empire Treasury |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange-brown on perforated paper in the format of a postage stamp, the obverse carries an intaglio-engraved portrait of Tsar Peter I within a circular medallion, framed by scrollwork and a double-headed eagle vignette above. The denomination numeral '1' is overprinted in large bold black letterpress over the central portrait. Circular cartouches at lower left and right each bear the numeral '1', with the inscription КОП. at the base and ПОЧТА at the top. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain white paper within a simple rectangular border. The Imperial Russian double-headed eagle arms appear at the top centre, below which the denomination КОП. 1 КОП. is set in bold type, followed by a four-line Cyrillic text stating that the note circulates on a par with copper coinage. |
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Russia's acute coin shortage during the First World War drove the Treasury to issue fractional paper notes in 1915 — something the public found absurd and immediately began hoarding. These tiny treasury stamps-cum-notes were officially called "марки-деньги" (marka-dengi), as they doubled as postage stamps, a function that created endless bureaucratic friction between the Finance Ministry and the postal service.
The printing date in the metadata — 30 April 1945 — is clearly erroneous and should be disregarded entirely. Pick #16 belongs to the 1915 State Treasury issue, decades removed from that date.