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3 Chervontsa
| Issuer | Emissionny Bank, Kiev |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Value | 3 Chervontsa |
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| Obverse description | Green note with an all-over guilloche underprint. A large ornate cartouche at right contains the numeral '3', with smaller matching numerals at the upper left and lower left corners. The central field carries the bold Cyrillic denomination 'ТРИ ЧЕРВОНЦА', beneath which a two-line letterpress inscription cites the legal basis of issue, followed by 'Киев 1941'; the issuer name 'ЭМИССИОННЫЙ БАНК' runs across the lower portion, and a red serial number appears at top centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | ТРИ ЧЕРВОНЦА Издано на основании положения об эмиссионном банке Киев 1941 ЭМИССИОННЫЙ БАНК |
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This note belongs to a brief and obscure episode of wartime occupation currency. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, provisional issuing structures were hastily assembled in occupied Ukrainian territories. The Emissionny Bank in Kiev operated under these conditions, producing currency whose legal standing was ambiguous almost from the moment of printing.
The 1941 Kiev chervontsa issues are genuinely rare survivors — not because they circulated heavily, but because the occupation administration's monetary arrangements collapsed and were superseded before the notes achieved any stable distribution.