1 ruble — USSR (1938)
Pick# 213
Photo:
Daniel LeBowsky (CC BY-NC-SA) · Numista
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Special facts
The miner with a pneumatic pick is a sign of the times: the Stakhanovite movement began in 1935 with a Donbas hewer’s record shift.
Appearance
Brown print over a yellow underprint. The USSR state emblem at top left, the denomination in guilloché rosettes at the corners, a miner with a jackhammer at right -- popularly, but wrongly, rumoured to be a portrait of the Stakhanovite miner Alexey Stakhanov. The reverse has the denomination at the corners and spelled out in 11 union-republic languages, two guilloché rosettes above and below a central octagon. 125 × 60 mm.
About the period
The treasury notes of 1938 in 1, 3 and 5 roubles were the small Soviet paper money of the pre-war and war years. Despite the title "State Treasury Note", they were issued by the State Bank of the USSR. More about the period “State treasury notes”, 1938
Coins and banknotes of this year: 1938
Specifications
- Period
- State treasury notes
- Currency
- 1 ruble = 100 kopecks
- Issue type
- Circulation
- Material
- Paper
- Size
- 125.0 × 60.0 mm
- Issuer
- Goznak
- Dominant color
- brown
- Watermark
- No
- Security thread
- No
- Demonetized
- Dec. 14, 1947
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