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3 Kopecks Postage Stamp Currency
| Issuer | Russian Empire (Treasury) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1700-1917) |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 КОП ПОЧТА А |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 КОПѢЙКИ. Имѣетъ хожденіе наравнѣ съ мѣдной монетой. |
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Russia's 1917 coin shortage was severe enough that the Treasury authorized postage stamp designs to be printed on cardboard and circulated as small change — a scheme first introduced in 1915 under Finance Minister Bark. The 3 Kopeck stamp currency (Pick 34) belongs to that same desperate logic: familiar imagery pressed into monetary service because metal had been consumed by the war effort.
The perforated edges are a genuine oddity in currency terms — retained from the stamp production process rather than added for any anti-counterfeiting purpose. Some examples were separated cleanly, others badly torn along the perfs, which remains the primary condition issue collectors encounter.