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25 Kopeks - Foreign Exchange Certificate
| Issuer | Vneshtorgbank (Внешпосылторг) |
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| Year | 1965-1972 |
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| Currency | Sixth Rouble (1961-1991) |
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| Obverse description | Black text on light orange guilloche underprint enclosed within a dark green rectangular frame. The Vneshtorg globe-and-initials emblem appears at upper left, with denomination numeral 25 in each corner. No serial band variant. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light paper with a central dark green guilloche cartouche of elaborate scrollwork and floral lathe-work patterns in an ornate scalloped border, printed without additional text or vignette. |
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Vneshtorgbank's Foreign Exchange Certificates were a Soviet mechanism for capturing hard currency without allowing citizens any real access to Western goods directly. Holders could spend them only at Beryozka ("birch tree") shops — a closed retail network selling imported goods and otherwise unavailable domestic items at prices denominated in certificate units rather than rubles.
The FX33 belongs to the second series, distinguished by a yellow stripe on the reverse that identified it as convertible only within the USSR, not redeemable abroad. First-series certificates (1961–1963) lacked this stripe, and the distinction matters for attribution. Significant numbers were saved as curiosities rather than spent, partly because the Beryozka network was geographically thin outside Moscow and Leningrad.