Monday, January 23, 2012

Soviet Union P-222

UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS
Soviet ruble (SUR) 

P-222
Value: 1 ruble
Issued by: Treasury of the USSR
Date: 1961
Printer: Goznak

Features
 Obverse:
Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union 

Reverse:
Value and currency names in many languages within Soviet Republics   

Watermark: Five-angled stars
Remark: Polyglot ruble
The languages and currency names on back are the following:
Russian (large - rubl'), Ukrainian (Karbovanets), Byelorussian (Rubel'), Uzbek (Sum), Kazakh (Som), Georgian (Maneti), Turkmenian (Manat), Lithuanian (Rublis), Romanian in Cyrillic script (Ruble), Latvian (Rublis), Kyrgyz (Som), Tajik (Sum), Armenian (Roubli), Azerbaijanian (Manat), and Estonian (Rubla).                  

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