50 kopecks — USSR (1924)

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Special facts

The paper fifty kopeks circulated at the same time as the silver fifty-kopek coin of 1924 with the blacksmith.

Appearance

Horizontal note in blue and yellow tones, 110 × 60 mm -- unlike the vertical smaller denominations of this series. The obverse is split into a plain white field at left (the USSR arms at top, "1924" at bottom) and a wider, patterned field at right with a wavy-line ground, "ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ КОПЕЕК" between two digits "50", the silver-coin-parity text and the printed signatures of the Commissar of Finance and a cashier. The reverse has a yellowish ground: an ornamental frame at left, a large digit "50" at centre with "С.С.С.Р." below, the value spelled out in Russian plus five more union-republic languages at left and right. Watermark: "windows" -- squares made of four smaller squares, in groups of four separated by lines.

About the period

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. More about the period “Treasury change notes”, 1924

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1924

Specifications

Period

Treasury change notes

Face value

50 kopecks: all issues

Currency

1 ruble = 100 kopecks

Issue type

Circulation

Material

Paper

Size

110 × 60 mm

Issuer

Goznak

Dominant color

blue

Watermark

Yes

Security thread

No

Demonetized

Aug. 31, 1926

Variants

People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR / USSR: Sokolnikov G.Y.

Year	Series	Cashier	Signature	Print run	Price	Details
1924	—	Kozlov M.M.		—	Estimate	specimen Perforated or red overprint "ОБРАЗЕЦ". P# 196s	+ ☆
specimen Perforated or red overprint "ОБРАЗЕЦ". P# 196s
1924	—	Kozlov M.M.		—	≈ $356	P# 196	+ ☆
P# 196