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10 Roubles Yermak Ferroalloy Factory
| Issuer | Yermak Ferroalloy Factory |
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| Value | 10 Roubles (10 SUR) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a large central guilloche underprint in warm ochre and brown tones, against which the bold numeral "10" is printed in dark brown intaglio-style lettering. The Cyrillic denomination "ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ" runs across the lower portion of the central field, while the upper left carries the inscription "Многоразовый талон на сумму" in smaller serif lettering. A decorative rosette vignette with an interlaced monogram appears at upper right, and a second guilloche rosette bearing the numeral "10" is positioned at lower right. A red alphanumeric serial number is printed at the upper right margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Принимается для мелких платежей предприятиями входящими в договор об обращении данных талонов город Ермак ИЗГОТОВЛЕНО НА ЗАВОДЕ ПО ИЗГОТОВЛЕНИЮ ДЕНЕГ НАРОДНОГО БАНКА ЮГОСЛАВИИ (Translation: Accepted for small payments by enterprises included in the agreement on the circulation of these coupons City of Yermak MADE AT THE MONEY MANUFACTURING FACTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S BANK OF YUGOSLAVIA) |
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One of the more unusual artifacts of Russia's post-Soviet monetary chaos, this note is an enterprise scrip — a factory-issued surrogate currency that circulated among workers at the Yermak Ferroalloy Plant in Aksu, Kazakhstan when the ruble supply collapsed and payroll in real money became functionally impossible during the early 1990s. Hundreds of Soviet-era industrial enterprises across the former USSR resorted to similar instruments, but few had the resources to commission professionally printed scrip from a foreign state printing works.
That this particular note was produced by Yugoslavia's national banknote printing facility — Zavod za izradu novčanica in Topčider — speaks to the hard-currency desperation of the moment and the surprising commercial flexibility of that institution in its final years.