Goznak test note

Goznak — the Russian state printing monopoly tracing its institutional roots to 1818 — periodically issues test notes for internal calibration, equipment trials, and demonstration to foreign clients considering Russian security printing services. These pieces are never assigned denomination or legal tender status, and they do not enter circulation by design. The 2013 example belongs to this promotional-technical tradition, produced at the Moscow facility to showcase the full stack of Goznak's in-house security capabilities in a single substrate.

Orlov printing — a technique patented by Ivan Orlov in 1890 and long associated with Goznak's output — allows multiple colors to transfer in precise registration in a single pass, producing the seamless color transitions that remain one of the harder features to replicate by offset counterfeiters.