USSR — Treasury change notes (1924)

The treasury change bons of 1924 were the paper small change of the first months of the 1924-pattern rouble, when small coin was in short supply.

The bons were issued by the People's Commissariat of Finance of the USSR under a resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of 22 February 1924. There are five denominations — 1, 2, 3, 5 and 50 kopecks; a 20-kopeck bon was prepared but never issued. The design is partly by Ivan Dubasov, and Goznak printed them. The bons circulated on par with silver coin and were withdrawn by 31 August 1926. Only the 50-kopeck bon carries the signatures of the People's Commissar of Finance and a cashier.