Currency Stamp - Emperor Alexander II

The circulation is unknown.
Catalog «Michel»: Emergency money, used as postal stamps.
Catalog «Scott»: Were issued for use as paper money, but contrary to regulations were often used for pos.. Read more »tal purposes.
Zagorsky Catalog: Currency stamps. Currency stamps were issued as subsidiary coinage due to a shortage of small coins. Currency stamps were distributed through financial institutions. Currency stamps were authorized for.
Reverse side of the postage stamp: Frame. Small Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire. Text: коп. 3 коп. It is used on a par with a copper coin.
Zagorsky Catalog: MD4-MD6 were manufactured in 1915. MD4 and MD5 did not enter the final appeal. MD6 entered financial circulation in 1917.
Emperor Alexander II (after the engraving of L.A. Seryakov, academician, from the portrait of Georg Botman, 1873).

Country:	Russian Empire
Type:	Postage stamps
Series:	Romanov Dynasty Designs Used As Currency (1915-1917)
Nominal:	2 k
Year:	1916
Material:	Paper thin cardboard.
Size:	24 x 30 mm
Perforation:	comb 13½