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10 Kopecks
| Issuer | Gosbank USSR (State Bank of the USSR) |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note with printed Cyrillic text arranged in columns. At right, a scalloped guilloche vignette frames the denomination numeral '10' above 'КОПЕЕК'. Two manuscript signatures appear below the issuer name, with a footer line of small-print text regarding acceptance on Soviet vessels, aircraft, and trains on international routes. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain reverse showing a ghost impression of the obverse text and guilloche vignette visible through the thin paper stock, with no additional design elements applied to this side. |
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The 1961 Soviet monetary reform — enacted 1 January of that year — redenominated the ruble at a ratio of 10 old rubles to 1 new, effectively making this 10-kopeck note the functional equivalent of a pre-reform ruble. The reform was presented as a technical rationalization, but it also quietly wiped out black-market pricing structures that had accumulated over the post-war years.
Small Gosbank fractional notes of this series were printed in enormous quantities and circulated hard. Surviving uncirculated examples are genuinely common; heavily worn ones arguably tell a more honest story about Soviet daily commerce.