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10 Chervontsev 1937
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR (Gosbank) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1924-1958) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue-green on a pale underprint, the obverse carries an oval intaglio portrait vignette of Vladimir Lenin at right, rendered in fine engine-turned line work. The USSR State Emblem appears at upper centre-left alongside the bank title in Cyrillic script, with the denomination spelled out in large bold letterpress type reading ДЕСЯТЬ ЧЕРВОНЦЕВ across the centre. Dense guilloche rosettes occupy the left panel and all four corners bear large numeral 10 countermarks, while a small-text guarantee clause runs beneath the main denomination legend. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The chervonets was originally introduced in 1922 as a hard-currency instrument backed by gold and foreign reserves, explicitly designed to function alongside — and eventually displace — the depreciated sovznaki ruble notes. By 1937, that gold-convertibility guarantee had long been quietly abandoned, though the denomination retained its name. The 10 Chervontsev note of this year was printed by Goznak in Moscow and belongs to the series that circulated through the late Stalin period, when currency reform discussions were already circulating internally within Gosbank.
Watermarking on Goznak output of this period is generally consistent, but strike quality on the typographic elements varies noticeably across surviving examples — a known characteristic of wartime-adjacent Soviet production runs.