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10 Kopeks
| Issuer | Russian-American Company / Российско-американская компания |
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| Year | 1816-1852 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | МАРКА ВЪ АМЕРИКЪ 10 КОП № 23121 Дир. Андр. Северинъ |
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| Reverse lettering | ЕГО ИМП: ВЕЛИЧ: ПОКРОВИТ: ВЫСОЧ: РОССИЙС: АМЕРИКАНС: КОМПАНІЙ ПЕЧАТЬ 10 коп Десять коппекъ |
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The Russian-American Company was a chartered trading monopoly — Russia's equivalent of the East India Company — operating out of Sitka (then Novo-Arkhangelsk) in Russian Alaska. These low-denomination paper notes circulated as a scrip currency among company employees, Indigenous workers, and settlers in the colonies, where coined money was chronically scarce and shipping it from St. Petersburg made little commercial sense.
The thirty-six-year issue window reflects not a single printing but periodic reissues as stocks wore out. Leather scrip had preceded these paper issues; by 1816 the company had settled on paper as more practical. Redemption was only ever guaranteed within company-controlled territory, which gave the notes a captive circulation by design.