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1 Kopek - Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Vneshtorgbank (Внешпосылторг) |
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| Year | 1965-1972 |
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| Value | 1 Kopeck (0.01 SUR) |
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| Obverse description | Black text on light orange underprint within a dark green guilloche border. The Vneshposyltorg globe-and-ribbon logo appears at upper left alongside the issuer name ВСЕСОЮЗНОЕ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ «ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ». Central text identifies the certificate type and denomination ОДНА КОПЕЙКА; date and series letter printed at lower left, serial number in red at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface dark green print centred on plain paper. A large oval guilloche medallion with intricate scrollwork and foliate arabesques forms the sole design element, printed by letterpress with no additional text or numerals. |
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Vneshtorgbank's Foreign Exchange Certificates were a Soviet workaround — a way to let citizens who received hard currency from abroad spend it inside the USSR without the state losing control of foreign exchange. The certificates came in two parallel series distinguished by strip color, with one issued to diplomats and foreigners and another to Soviet citizens receiving remittances. The P-FX44 belongs to the citizen-facing series, redeemable only at Beryozka ("birch tree") shops where imported and otherwise unobtainable goods were sold exclusively for these certificates.
Possession of actual foreign banknotes remained a criminal offense throughout this period. The certificate system was the state's solution to that contradiction.