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3 Köpejek
| Issuer | Tuvan Commercial Industrial Bank |
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| Year | 1933-1934 |
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| Thickness | 1.5 mm |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Tuva — officially the Tuvan People's Republic — was a nominally independent state under heavy Soviet influence, and its coinage of the early 1930s reflects that ambiguity precisely. The Tuvan Commercial Industrial Bank issued this series not as a sovereign mint operation but as a practical response to a chronic shortage of small-denomination currency in a landlocked territory the size of England with almost no banking infrastructure. The köpejek denomination itself mirrors Soviet monetary nomenclature, a deliberate alignment that underscored where real authority lay.
The 1933–34 issues are among the most geographically remote coinages of the 20th century by any reasonable measure.