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20 Kopecks Odessa
| Issuer | City of Odessa |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 20 Kopecks (0.20) |
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| Reverse description | Central value numeral "20" in large bold type, flanked by an olive-green printed vignette of intertwined laurel and oak branches tied with a ribbon bow at the base. An overprint in black Cyrillic text identifies the note as a token exchange mark of the City of Odessa, with an anti-forgery warning inscribed along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | РАЗМѢННАЯ МАРКА г.Одессы поддѣлка преслѣдуется закономъ |
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Odessa's municipal administration began issuing its own fractional notes in 1917 as small-denomination coins vanished from circulation — a problem that plagued virtually every city in the former Russian Empire following the February Revolution. Hundreds of local authorities, zemstvos, and cooperatives improvised their own scrip that year, but Odessa's issues were among the more formally executed, backed by the city duma rather than a private enterprise or cooperative.
The kopeck-denomination notes circulated alongside a chaotic mixture of Tsarist, Provisional Government, and eventually Ukrainian People's Republic currency. By 1918 Odessa had changed hands multiple times, and most of this municipal scrip was rendered worthless long before any formal demonetization.