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2 Kopecks Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Vneshtorgbank (Bank for Foreign Trade of the USSR) |
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| Year | 1977-1980 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Отрезной чек Банка для внешней торговли СССР (выпуск 1977 года) По этому чеку Внешторгбанк СССР выплатит две копейки БАНК ДЛЯ ВНЕШНЕЙ ТОРГОВЛИ СССР 2 КОПЕЙКИ Настоящий чек принимается в уплату за товары и услуги на советских судах, совершающих международный круиз |
| Reverse description | Reverse printed in pale lilac, showing a ghost impression of the obverse design elements through the thin paper stock, with a serial prefix letter visible at lower left. The surface is largely plain with no independent design elements. |
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Vneshtorgbank's Foreign Exchange Certificates were not conventional currency — they were a parallel system designed to channel hard currency earnings away from the black market and into state-controlled Beriozka shops, where imported goods and otherwise unobtainable items could be purchased. The 2 kopeck denomination sits at the absolute floor of this series, a face value so small it functioned almost entirely as change within the Beriozka retail system rather than as a meaningful store of value.
Two distinct series exist with color-coded strips embedded in the paper, distinguishing certificates earned through different foreign exchange sources — a detail that determined exactly which shops and which goods a holder could access.