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3 Roubles 15 scrolls
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance, USSR |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Printer | Goznak (Гознак, Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг), Russia (1818-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИЙ БИЛЕТ СССР ТРИ РУБЛЯ (Translation: STATE TREASURY NOTE OF THE USSR / THREE ROUBLES) |
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| Reverse lettering | ТРИ РУБЛЯ (Translation: THREE ROUBLES) |
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The 1947 Soviet monetary reform, announced without warning on 14 December, gave citizens one week to exchange old notes at punishing rates — 10 old roubles to 1 new for amounts above 3,000. The reform was explicitly designed to wipe out wealth accumulated through wartime black markets and speculation, and it succeeded. Ordinary wage earners fared reasonably; anyone holding undeclared cash hoards did not.
The "15 scrolls" designation distinguishes this variant within the 1947 series — Goznak produced multiple die states with differing guilloche scroll counts on the reverse, a detail relevant to collectors but invisible in general circulation.