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1 Kopeck Altai
| Issuer | Altai Regional Cooperative Union |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (0.01) |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale paper reverse with text printed in mirror impression showing through from the obverse, with a circular handstamp visible at center right. Sparse typeset inscriptions appear at the upper and lower portions of the note. |
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| Protection type | Handstamp |
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The Altai Regional Cooperative Union was one of dozens of provincial cooperative organizations that resorted to issuing their own fractional scrip during the early Soviet period, when small-denomination metal coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation in the region. This note — one kopeck, nearly worthless even by 1923 standards — reflects the acute coin shortage that persisted across Siberia years after the Civil War ended.
The handstamp serves as the primary authentication mechanism, a telling sign of how improvised this issue was. No central printing authority, no security paper.