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10 Kopecks
| Issuer | Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank) |
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| Year | 1973-1975 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned note with a fine guilloche underprint border. Cyrillic text block at centre states the issuing authority and promise to pay ten kopecks, with the denomination numeral '10' in a decorative floral cartouche at right. Two manuscript signatures appear below the bank name legend. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse text and guilloche pattern, with no independent design elements. A handwritten alphanumeric control notation is visible in the lower left margin. |
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Vneshtorgbank's kopeck certificates were a Soviet hard-currency instrument, not ordinary banknotes — issued specifically to foreign visitors, diplomats, and authorized personnel for use in Beryozka stores, which sold imported and otherwise unavailable goods in exchange for these certificates rather than rubles. The 10-kopeck denomination sits at the low end of a series that effectively created a parallel retail economy insulated from the Soviet monetary system.
Three color-coded sub-series exist — yellow strip for capitalist-country currencies, blue for socialist-country currencies, and one without a strip for Soviet citizens repatriated earnings. Mixing them was not permitted at point of sale, and Beryozka staff were trained to enforce the distinction.