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10 Kopecks
| Issuer | Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank) |
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| Year | 1965-1980 |
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| Currency | Sixth Rouble (1961-1991) |
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| Obverse description | Green note with Cyrillic text header identifying the issuer and issue year (1979) at top. Central text states payment obligation by Vneshtorgbank USSR for ten kopecks, with serial number prefixed 'А №' at lower left and two manuscript signatures. A guilloche-style vignette with denomination '10 КОПЕЕК' and the 'ВВТ Серия Д' monogram appears at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ОТРЕЗНОЙ ЧЕК БАНКА ДЛЯ ВНЕШНЕЙ ТОРГОВЛИ СССР (ВЫПУСК 1979 ГОДА) По этому чеку Внешторгбанк СССР выплатит ДЕСЯТЬ копеек. БАНК ДЛЯ ВНЕШНЕЙ ТОРГОВЛИ СССР 10 КОПЕЕК ВВТ Серия Д Чек предназначен для расчетов в магазинах в/о "Внешпосылторг". Передача чека в собственность другим лицам запрещена. |
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Vneshtorgbank's kopeck-denomination certificates were not general-circulation money. They were issued exclusively for use in Beryozka shops — the hard-currency retail network that allowed the Soviet state to recapture foreign exchange from citizens who received remittances or earned convertible currency abroad. Soviet citizens could not legally hold foreign currency, so these certificates served as the permissible substitute, pegged notionally to the ruble but carrying genuine purchasing power that ordinary rubles did not.
The 10-kopeck denomination was the smallest in the series, used primarily as change within the Beryozka system. Notes from the earlier part of the issue range carry a yellow stripe; later issues are distinguished by a dark blue strip along one edge — a security modification introduced to combat forgery within the closed retail network.