RSFSR 20 Rubles Overprint, 1922
Russia · 1922 · 20 rubles
A definitive stamp of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic featuring a red overprint of a hammer and sickle with a star and the denomination '20 r.' on an earlier stamp of the Russian Empire.
Issued in 1922 by the RSFSR, this stamp represents the early Soviet government's practice of overprinting existing Imperial Russian stamp stock to reflect the new political ideology and address currency changes during the post-revolutionary period.
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