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10 Babok Krutoy Bank
| Issuer | Krutoy Bank (novelty/fantasy issuer) |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Humorous fantasy note styled after the 1997 Russian 10-ruble issue. Central vignette shows a bridge over a river with a modern city skyline and a church tower labeled КРУТОЯРСК, with a jet aircraft superimposed. Upper left bears a globe logo inscribed КРУТОЙ БАНК; guilloche underprint in green and yellow at right with a denomination panel. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 / 10 10 ДЕСЯТЬ БАБОК (Translation: 10 / 10 10 TEN BABOK) |
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A Russian novelty item from 1997 — the "Krutoy Bank" series was part of a wave of satirical fantasy currency produced in the post-Soviet commercial printing boom, when cheap offset presses and a suddenly deregulated print market made this kind of thing trivially easy to produce. "Krutoy" is Russian slang roughly equivalent to "cool" or "tough," giving the issuer name a deliberately tongue-in-cheek swagger.
No collector value to speak of, but these pieces do occasionally surface as period artifacts of the chaotic mid-Yeltsin years.