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100 Roubles - Military Trade Cheque
| Issuer | Vneshtorgbank (Внешпосылторг) |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Turquoise and brown with red border strips at top and bottom bearing the Cyrillic legend СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЙ ДЛЯ ВОЕННОЙ ТОРГОВЛИ. A large guilloche vignette at left carries the numeral 100; the right field bears the issuing authority name and cheque text in Cyrillic. A globe vignette and serial number appear at upper right. |
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| Obverse lettering | СПЕЦИАЛЬНЫЙ. ДЛЯ ВОЕННОЙ ТОРГОВЛИ ВСЕСОЮЗНОЕ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ "ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ" ЧЕК НА ПОЛУЧЕНИЕ ТОВАРОВ НА СУММУ СТО РУБЛЕЙ ЧЕК ПРЕДНАЗНАЧЕН ДЛЯ РАСЧЕТОВ В МАГАЗИНАХ, ОСУЩЕСТВЛЯЮЩИХ ОПЕРАЦИИ В/О «ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ» |
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Vneshtorgbank's military trade cheques — sometimes called "voentorg cheques" — were issued to Soviet military personnel and civilian specialists stationed abroad, giving them access to goods in closed Beriozka hard-currency shops without actual foreign exchange changing hands. The system kept hard currency inside state coffers while rationing privileged consumption by rank and assignment. These cheques circulated in a shadow economy quite removed from the official ruble, and the 1976 series is associated specifically with military postings rather than the broader diplomatic or export-worker cheque runs.
A secondary black market for them developed inside the USSR, which the state periodically cracked down on without much success.