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100 Roubles - Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Vneshtorgbank (Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR) |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Turquoise and brown cheque note with a large guilloche rosette vignette at left bearing the numeral 100, and bold Cyrillic inscription СТО РУБЛЕЙ at centre-right. The heading reads ВСЕСОЮЗНОЕ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ «ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ» above the cursive word ЧЕК; a globe logo and serial number appear at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | ЧЕК ПЕРЕПРОДАЖЕ НЕ ПОДЛЕЖИТ МЕСТО ДЛЯ ПЕЧАТИ |
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Vneshtorgbank's Foreign Exchange Certificates were a parallel currency system designed to capture hard currency from Soviet citizens who had access to it — sailors, diplomats, performers, athletes — while preventing that currency from circulating freely or being exchanged on the black market. The certificates came in two series distinguished by stripe color: one for convertible Western currencies, one for currencies of socialist trading partners. The distinction mattered enormously for what you could actually purchase with them at Beryozka shops.
The 1976 series replaced an earlier Vneshposyltorg issue. Forgery pressure on this denomination was significant enough that the notes incorporated security features unusual for domestic Soviet printing of the period.