3 kopecks — Russian Empire (1916) — Stamp money
Pick# 20
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Special facts
The red 3-kopek stamp money of 1916 with the portrait of Alexander III, the second-issue denomination that actually circulated.
About the period
Stamp money was wartime small change printed from the clichés of the postage stamps issued for the tercentenary of the Romanov dynasty. It has no gum, and the back states that the stamp circulates on par with copper or small silver coin. More about the period “Stamp money”, 1915 — 1917
Coins and banknotes of this year: 1916
Specifications
- Period
- Stamp money
- Ruler
- Nicholas II
- Face value
- 3 kopecks: all issues
- Currency
- 1 ruble = 100 kopecks
- Issue type
- Circulation
- Material
- Paper
- Size
- 24 × 30 mm
- Issuer
- Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers
- Dominant color
- Red
- Watermark
- No
- Security thread
- No
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