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1 Rouble Voucher; Executive Bureau of the Professional Cells of the Economic Department of the Technological Institute; Kharkov
| Issuer | Executive Bureau of the Professional Cells of the Economic Department of the Technological Institute, Kharkov |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕК из КАССЫ ОДИН РУБЛЬ БЕЗ ПЕЧАТИ НЕ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЕН (Translation: Check from the Cash Desk One Rouble Not valid without a stamp) |
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| Protection type | Stamp |
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This note belongs to a category of Soviet-era institutional scrip that flourished briefly during the NEP transition of 1921–22, when chronic cash shortages pushed factories, universities, and state enterprises to issue their own token currencies for internal use. The Technological Institute in Kharkov — then capital of Soviet Ukraine — was a major technical education center, and its economic department apparently operated with enough autonomy to authorize and distribute its own rouble-denominated vouchers among staff or student bodies.
The authenticating stamp substitutes for any formal security printing. Authentication by rubber stamp was the norm for this class of emergency scrip, and forgery was rarely the concern — institutional control was.