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3 Chervontsa
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR (Государственный банк СССР) |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Value | 3 Chervontsa = 30 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a multicolour guilloche of green, blue, and brown tones, with no pictorial vignette. A large central medallion of concentric lathe-work rosettes carries the Cyrillic inscription «ТРИ ЧЕРВОНЦА» in bold letters, flanked symmetrically by two diamond-shaped guilloche panels each bearing the numeral "3". At the top centre the Cyrillic abbreviation «СССР» appears in stylised lettering. A lower border panel contains multilingual denomination inscriptions in Georgian, Azerbaijani Latin script, and Persian script, with additional Cyrillic legends in Ukrainian and Belarusian running along the border. |
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| Protection description | Watermarked paper with a pattern visible when held to light. |
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The 3 Chervontsa denomination was peculiar even within Soviet currency logic — the chervonets system, introduced in 1922 to stabilize post-civil-war finances with a nominally gold-backed unit, produced denominations that had no real parallel in conventional banking practice. A three-unit note implies a divisional need that the one and five alone could not satisfy, suggesting heavy reliance on small commercial transactions during the First Five-Year Plan period.
Pick 201 is the only 3 Chervontsa type issued; the denomination was abandoned entirely with the 1937 currency reform, which also retired the chervonets name in favor of the plain "ruble" designation.