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Trade Voucher - 100 Francs Ural; trade check
| Issuer | Tovarishchestvo Uralsky Rynok (Товарищество «Уральский Рынок») |
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| Year | 1991 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Purple and pink voucher on guilloche underprint with denomination numerals 100 in four corners. Central oval vignette bears a portrait of D.I. Mendeleev with his name on a ribbon below. Two facsimile signatures appear at bottom, titled Председатель правления (Chairman) and Казначей (Treasurer), with a serial number in red at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Purple and light blue voucher on multicolour guilloche underprint. A central oval vignette shows a line-engraved view of the Tobolsk Kremlin with caption ТОБОЛЬСК, КРЕМЛЬ beneath. Denomination 100 appears in circles at left and right, flanked by laurel sprays, with issuer name and commodity value legend in Cyrillic at top and bottom. |
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Tovarishchestvo Uralsky Rynok — "Ural Market Partnership" — was one of the cooperative trading enterprises that proliferated in the final years of the Soviet Union, when liberalizing regulations under perestroika allowed quasi-private commercial activity but chronic cash shortages made ordinary transactions nearly impossible. These trade vouchers filled the gap, functioning as internal scrip redeemable against goods rather than as freely circulating currency.
The Goznak connection is the detail worth noting. Having the state's own security printing establishment produce what amounted to a private commercial token speaks directly to how thoroughly the command economy had lost coherence by 1991 — the infrastructure of the Soviet monetary system was, quite literally, printing its own substitutes.