| Location |
Soviet Union
(Russia) |
|---|---|
| Period |
Soviet Union (1922-1991)
|
| Type | Confinement vouchers › Internment and prison vouchers |
| Year | 1929 |
| Value | 5 Kopecks (0.05) |
| Currency | Fourth Rouble (1924-1947) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 576890 |
Brown print; yellow underprint.
Large value at centre.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
Лагери Особого Назначения ОГПУ
РАСЧЕТНАЯ КВИТАНЦИЯ
5 КОПЕЕК
Член Коллегии ОГПУ СССР
Начальник Финотдела ОГПУ
1929
Translation: OGPU Special Purpose Camps. Calculation receipt. 5 Kopeks. Member of the Collegium of the OGPU USSR. Head of the Finance Department of the OGPU.
Brown text; yellow underprint.
Script: Cyrillic
Lettering:
Принимается в платежиот
заключенных исключительнов учреждениях
и предприятиях
Лагерей Особого Назначения
Никакие заявления об утере расчетных квитанций во внимание не принимаются
ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ
ПО ЗАКОНУ
ОГПУ
Translation: Accepted for payments from prisoners exclusively in institutions and enterprises of the Special Purpose Camps of the OGPU. No statements regarding the loss of payment receipts will be taken into consideration. Forgery is punishable by law.
These notes, nicknamed "sloniki" (slon is "elephant" in Russian, but here it's an acronym for Solovetsky Lager Osobogo Naznacheniya), were used as internal currency to prevent prisoners from using standard Soviet roubles to bribe guards or facilitate escapes. Primarily used in the Solovki prison camp system, the first major camp of what would become the GULAG system.
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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