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| Issuer | Republic of Uzbekistan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Uncut sheet of ration coupon booklets printed in red and blue on white paper, arranged in a grid layout and comprising individual coupon tickets of various denominations (5, 10, 50, 100, 150, and 200 kupons), each carrying a guilloche underprint with the Cyrillic legends КУПОНИ and ЎЗБЕКИСТОН РЕСПУБЛИКАСИ. Two larger central coupon cards bear the aggregate values 200 and 150 in bold red numerals. Each of these central cards is overprinted with a circular official validation stamp. |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper reverse with no printed design elements; a faint offset impression of the circular validation stamp from the obverse is visible through the sheet. |
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Uzbekistan's coupon currency was an interim solution rushed into circulation following independence from the Soviet Union, bridging the gap before the permanent som could be introduced in 1994. The 350-coupon denomination sits at the upper end of the coupon series, reflecting the inflationary pressures that made lower values rapidly impractical almost as soon as they were issued.
Pick 51A distinguishes a specific signature combination within the series — a detail that matters more here than usual, since coupon-series variants are frequently misattributed in collections due to inconsistent cataloguing across earlier references.