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| Issuer | Administration of Economic Enterprises of VUTsIK (Управление Хозяйственными Предприятиями ВУЦИК) |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in lilac/pink ink on plain unadorned paper. A circular stamp impression at the centre bears the denomination numeral '5' in large figures flanked by the abbreviated inscriptions 'ЗОЛ.' and 'КОП.' on either side, enclosed within a circular border carrying additional Cyrillic text of the issuing authority. |
| Reverse lettering | ЗОЛ. 5 КОП. |
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VUTsIK — the All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee — ran its own commercial enterprises during the NEP period, and this 5 kopeck note is a product of that brief experiment in quasi-autonomous Soviet institutional finance. These small-denomination scrip issues were produced to facilitate transactions within facilities directly administered by VUTsIK, circulating in a tightly bounded economic space rather than through any general monetary channel.
The Pick S-prefix classification is telling: this is regional and semi-official scrip, not a state banknote. Ukraine's NEP-era institutional currency is among the least-documented in Soviet notaphily, and P#S295 turns up infrequently in Western collections.