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2 Kopecks Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR (Vneshtorgbank) |
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| Year | 1965-1980 |
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| Currency | Sixth Rouble (1961-1991) |
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| Obverse lettering | ОТРЕЗНОЙ ЧЕК БАНКА ДЛЯ ВНЕШНЕЙ ТОРГОВЛИ СССР (ВЫПУСК 1979 ГОДА) По этому чеку Внешторгбанк СССР выплатит ДВЕ копейки. БАНК ДЛЯ ВНЕШНЕЙ ТОРГОВЛИ СССР 2 КОПЕЙКИ БВТ Серия Д Чек предназначен для расчетов в магазинах в/о «Внешпосылторг». Передача чека в собственность другим лицам запрещена. |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-white reverse with no printed design, showing only faint ghosting of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock. |
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Vneshtorgbank's Foreign Exchange Certificates — known informally as "cheki" — were a parallel currency system designed to capture hard currency from Soviet citizens who had access to it: sailors, diplomatic staff, technical workers posted abroad. The certificates came in two series distinguished by their strip color, one for convertible currencies, one for socialist-bloc currencies. The 2-kopeck denomination is among the most minor in the system, essentially fractional change within a closed retail ecosystem.
They were valid only at Beryozka shops, where imported goods unavailable in the regular economy could be purchased. Possession of ordinary foreign currency by Soviet citizens was a criminal offense; the certificate system laundered that problem legally while keeping hard currency flows under state control.