IMPERIAL RUSSIA - THREE STAMPS. Stamps from the Romanov Tercentenary series of 1913 reprinted in 1915 on CARDBOARD to be used in place of coins and banknotes. On the reverse, the text "with currency value" and the Romanov emblem, a crowned double-headed eagle: < 10 blue Kopecks bearing the effigy of Tsar NICOLAS II < 15 light-brown Kopecks in the effigy of Tsar NICOLAS PREMIER. < 20 green Kopecks in the effigy of Tsar ALEXANDER I

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