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Goznak test note
| Issuer | Goznak (Гознак), Russian Federation |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a stylized Dymkovo-style cockerel in red intaglio, flanked by folk-costumed female figures at each lateral border. Right of centre, a large sunflower guilloche within a teardrop-shaped underprint panel. Lower right, an intaglio sheaf of wheat ears with the Cyrillic motto in a guilloche cartouche. |
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| Reverse lettering | РОССИЯ ГОЗНАК GOZNAK RUSSIA ЖИВЫЕ РОДНИКИ КУЛЬТУРЫ NO VALUE НЕ ЯВЛЯЕТСЯ ПЛАТЕЖНЫМ СРЕДСТВОМ |
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Goznak test notes — produced by the state printing and minting enterprise that has supplied Russia's official currency since the Imperial period — are made for internal calibration of printing equipment, ink density, and security feature tolerances rather than for any issued series. They circulate only within the facility itself and are never intended for release. Most are destroyed after use.
Surviving examples reach collectors through deaccession, employee acquisition, or unclear channels, which means provenance is almost never documented. What you have is essentially a printer's artifact, not a banknote.