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350 Coupons 200+150 Coupons, 1st quarter
| Issuer | Uzbekistan |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Uncut sheet comprising two ration coupon cards issued by the Republic of Uzbekistan for the 1st quarter of 1993: an upper card for 200 coupons and a lower card for 150 coupons, each card surrounded by a grid of individual denomination coupons (5, 10, 50, and 100 coupon values) printed in blue and red on a fine guilloche underprint. Each card bears a circular blue control stamp and blank lines for the organisation name, surname, and authorising signatures of the head of organisation and chief accountant. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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Uzbekistan's early post-Soviet currency arrangements were genuinely chaotic. Before the som was introduced in July 1994, the country relied on coupon-based transitional instruments — and the denomination arithmetic here reflects exactly that improvisation. The "200+150" designation indicates this was a combined or composite coupon booklet sheet rather than a conventional single denomination, a pragmatic response to runaway inflation that made fixed-value coupons obsolete almost as soon as they were printed.
The "1st quarter" designation tied validity to a specific three-month window, a rationing mechanism borrowed from Soviet-era practice.