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10 Roubles - Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Vneshposyltorg (Всесоюзное Объединение Внешпосылторг) |
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| Year | 1965-1972 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles (10 SUR) |
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| Obverse description | Black typeset text on gray-green guilloche underprint within a red-brown rectangular frame; no band. The VPT globe logo appears at upper left, with denomination numeral 10 in each lower corner. Series letter and serial number printed in red at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ВСЕСОЮЗНОЕ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ «ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ» СЕРТИФИКАТ на получение товаров на сумму ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Место для печати учреждения, выдавшего сертификат Серия Б |
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Vneshposyltorg certificates were the Soviet Union's mechanism for extracting hard currency from its own citizens — a closed-loop system where foreign earnings or remittances could only be spent at Beryozka shops, which stocked imported and otherwise unobtainable goods. The certificates never circulated in any ordinary sense; they moved from envelope to shop counter and nowhere else. Holding them outside that channel was legally precarious.
The FX series underwent a quiet but significant design change in 1966 when a yellow stripe was added to distinguish certificates redeemable at "hard currency" Beryozkas from those backed by socialist-country earnings — the distinction mattered enormously to the shops' inventory allocation. This 10-rouble denomination sits in the upper range of the series and would have represented serious purchasing power within that parallel economy.