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100 Coupons 4th quarter
| Issuer | Republic of Uzbekistan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a ration card format divided into a grid of individual detachable coupon tabs in denominations of 1, 3, 5, and 10, each inscribed with 'КУПОНИ' and '4 квартал' (4th quarter) in Cyrillic script against a fine guilloche underprint. A central text panel carries the principal inscription identifying the card as a 100-coupon allocation of the Republic of Uzbekistan, with blank fields for the organisation name, surname, head of organisation, and chief accountant. The overall layout is typographic, printed in black on plain paper with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | БЕРИЛГАН ЖОЙГА ҚАЙТАРИЛИШИ ЛОЗИМ ЎЗБЕКИСТОН РЕСПУБЛИКАСИ 100 КУПОНГА КАРТОЧКА Ташкилот номи __________ Фамилияси __________ Ташкилот раҳбари __________ Бош бухгалтери __________ М. Ў. 4 квартал (Translation: The card of the Republic of Uzbekistan 100 coupons must be returned to the place of issue, Name of organisation/Last name/Head of the organization/Chief Accountant, 4th quarter) |
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Uzbekistan's early independence issues are frequently misunderstood as emergency scrip, but the coupon system was a deliberate transitional mechanism introduced while the country prepared for its own national currency. The som-coupon series replaced Soviet rubles in circulation from 1992, giving the new government monetary control before the permanent som was ready. These coupons were not provisional in the informal sense — they were legal tender, issued by the Central Bank, and denominated for everyday transactional use.
The 4th quarter designation reflects the coupon system's unusual quarterly validity structure, which was used to manage inflation and prevent hoarding. Notes from earlier quarters are considerably scarcer, but Q4 1993 issues saw wide circulation ahead of the som's formal introduction in July 1994.