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1 Kopeck Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Gosbank USSR (State Bank of the USSR) |
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| Year | 1961 |
| Type | Exchange certificates |
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| Obverse lettering | Отрезной чек Государственного банка СССР (выпуск 1961 года) По этому чеку Госбанк СССР выплатит одну копейку. ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНК СССР 1 КОПЕЙКА Настоящий чек принимается в уплату за товары и услуги на советских судах, самолетах и поездах, совершающих рейсы на международных линиях. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse showing bleed-through impression of the obverse text and guilloche elements in pale green, with no additional design or lettering applied to this side. |
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Vneshposyltorg certificates — the "blue series" issued from 1961 — were not ordinary money. They were a Soviet mechanism for controlling access to foreign-made consumer goods, allowing recipients of remittances from abroad to shop at Beryozka stores without the state losing hard currency to the black market. The 1-kopeck denomination (P-FX1) is the smallest unit in the entire series and was issued purely to make change within that closed retail system.
Gosbank's involvement was nominal. Real authority over the certificate system sat with the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The notes circulated in a legally ambiguous space — technically valid only in designated shops, yet widely traded informally at steep premiums over face value.