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Voucher - 10 Roubles
| Issuer | Kolkhoz "Testament of Lenin", Oleksandriya District, Kirovohrad Oblast |
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| Year | 1989 |
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| Printer | Oleksandriya Typography (Александрийская гортипография) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-brown paper stock with all text letterpress-printed in red. The issuing kolkhoz and district are named at top, with the denomination "Десять рублей" in large display script at centre. A cashier's signature line and seal space (М.П.) appear below, with a validity disclaimer and printer's imprint at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted buff-brown paper reverse with a faint rectangular blind-embossed panel visible at centre, showing bleed-through of the red obverse lettering along the upper edge. No additional design elements or inscriptions are present. |
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Kolkhoz internal scrip from the late Soviet period occupies a strange corner of notaphily — legally these vouchers weren't currency, but in practice they functioned as the only medium of exchange available to farm workers paid in kind. Collective farms in Ukraine issued them in enormous variety through the 1980s, often through local municipal printing houses with no standardization of design or security features whatsoever.
The Oleksandriya city typography was a workaday commercial press, not a specialist security printer. That the kolkhoz was still issuing scrip in 1989 — as the Soviet economy was visibly disintegrating — gives this piece an unintended historical charge. Gorbachev's reforms had already begun collapsing the command supply chain; farm vouchers like this one were filling gaps that rubles couldn't reach.