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25 Kopecks Administration of Economic Enterprises
| Issuer | Administration of Economic Enterprises of VTsIK (ВУЦИК) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S297 |
| Obverse description | Soviet state arms of the USSR at left, rendered within a circular vignette with laurel wreath surround. The main text field carries the title of the issuing authority at upper centre, the denomination in large Cyrillic lettering, validity clause, and a block of regulatory text governing acceptance in internal settlements. The note bears two manuscript signatures — Secretary of VTsIK and Chief Accountant — above the series designation at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper ground with a large lilac-rose typographic denomination mark centred on the field, reading '25' in bold numerals flanked by the abbreviated gold unit designations at left and right. |
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VTsIK — the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee — operated a parallel economic administration that issued its own scrip during the chaotic transitional period before the 1924 Soviet currency reform unified the ruble system. These were not banknotes in any central bank sense; they were functional tokens of purchasing power within a controlled institutional sphere, issued to manage wage payments and internal transactions when hard currency was unavailable and sovznaki were collapsing in real value almost weekly.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference signals its classification as a local or semi-official issue. Surviving examples are genuinely uncommon — not because they were prestigious, but because nobody thought to keep them.