RSFSR — State currency notes, stamp type (1922)

The small-format state currency notes of 1922 are the size of a large postage stamp, about 36 × 66 mm. In effect they served as kopecks.

The 1, 3, 5, 10, 25 and 50-rouble notes were issued under a resolution of the People's Commissariat of Finance of 5 December 1922 as a supplement to the 1923-pattern notes, at 1 : 100. They are a separate type, not the same as the regular 1922-pattern notes of the same denominations. Goznak printed them in sheets of 20 (4 × 5) on paper with a mosaic watermark; they carry no signatures or numbers.

The notes were withdrawn from circulation on 1 November 1923. Modern collector forgeries are known — also on paper with a mosaic watermark, including whole sheets.