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3 Roubles
| Issuer | Narodny Komissariat Finansov SSSR (People's Commissariat of Finance of the USSR) |
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| Year | 1934 |
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| Value | 3 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Dark green note with a central cartouche bearing the title inscription and the value ТРИ РУБЛЯ in bold Cyrillic lettering, surmounted by the Soviet state emblem. The field is divided into multilingual value panels in Russian, Ukrainian, and other Soviet languages arranged along the left and right borders, with dense guilloche underprint throughout. The denomination numeral 3 appears in a separate panel at lower centre, flanked by serial numbers and the facsimile signature of the Narodny Komissar Finansov, with the year 1934 printed within the central text block. |
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| Protection description | Complex engine-turned guilloche patterns covering both obverse and reverse fields as the primary security measure against counterfeiting. |
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The 1934 Soviet treasury note series — of which this 3 Rouble piece is part — was issued under the Narodny Komissariat Finansov rather than the State Bank, a deliberate administrative distinction that classified these as kaznachieyskie bilety, treasury obligations, rather than bank notes proper. The difference was ideological as much as functional: the Soviet state was signaling that currency issuance was a planning instrument, not a credit mechanism tied to any banking institution.
This series replaced the 1928 issues following the consolidation of the monetary reforms that had begun with the chervonets stabilization a decade earlier. The 1934 notes circulated alongside Gosbank chervontsy of higher denominations, with the treasury notes handling small daily transactions throughout the mid-Stalin period.