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20 Roubles Foreign Trade Certificate
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ВСЕСОЮЗНОЕ ОБЪЕДИНЕНИЕ “ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ” ЧЕК НА ПОЛУЧЕНИЕ ТОВАРОВ НА СУММУ ДВАДЦАТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ЧЕК ПРЕДНАЗНАЧЕН ДЛЯ РАСЧЕТОВ В МАГАЗИНАХ, ОСУЩЕСТВЛЯЮЩИХ ОПЕРАЦИИ В/О “ВНЕШПОСЫЛТОРГ” (Translation: ALL-UNION ASSOCIATION “VNESHPOSYLTORG” CERTIFICATE FOR RECEIPT OF GOODS IN THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY RUBLES CERTIFICATE IS INTENDED FOR SETTLEMENTS IN STORES CARRYING OUT OPERATIONS OF (ALL-UNION ASSOCIATION) “VNESHPOSYLTORG”) |
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| Reverse lettering | ЧЕК ПЕРЕПРОДАЖЕ НЕ ПОДЛЕЖИТ (Translation: CERTIFICATE IS NOT A SUBJECT TO RESALE) |
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Foreign Trade Certificates — Vneshtorgbank's hard-currency substitute — were introduced in 1961 to allow Soviet citizens who received foreign earnings to spend them at Beriozka shops without handling actual Western currency. The blue-series certificates, of which this is one, were issued specifically for transactions with socialist-bloc countries, distinguished from the yellow series reserved for hard-currency earners from capitalist nations. The distinction mattered enormously in practice: blue certificates could not purchase the same range of imported goods available to yellow-series holders.
The two-tier structure was quietly abolished in 1988.