Catalog
75 Roubles
| Issuer | Republic of Belarus |
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| Year | 1991 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Consumer ration card (Картка Спажыўца) comprising a sheet of 28 perforated coupons arranged in a grid, issued in four denominations — 1, 3, 5, and 10 roubles — printed in blue on light green security paper with a fine guilloche underprint. A central registry panel bears handwritten fields for the holder's surname, issuing authority, administrator, and chief accountant, overprinted with an official violet cachet. The statutory warning ПАДРОБКА ПРАСЛЕДУЕЦЦА ПА ЗАКОНУ (Counterfeiting is prosecuted by law) is printed at the foot of the registry panel. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is plain unprinted white paper, with faint bleed-through impressions of the obverse coupon numerals visible through the sheet. |
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Belarus issued its first post-Soviet ruble series in 1992, backdated to 1991, as emergency transitional currency after the republic abandoned the Soviet ruble. The 75-ruble denomination is unusual — not a value that appears in standard decimal or power-of-five progressions, and its existence reflects ad hoc denomination planning during a period of rapid monetary improvisation rather than any coherent policy framework.
Pick lists this as P#A3, the "A" prefix indicating it was catalogued retroactively as a supplementary issue outside the main series sequence.