1951 3-Leva Bank Note - Is This Rare?

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1951 3-Leva Bank Note - Is This Rare?

#1 Unread post by CoinPyro »

Good morning, everyone,

I found a billfold this morning containing a few international bank notes, including this neat little guy. This appears to be a 1951 Soviet-era Ruble bill. I am pretty impressed with its shape given its age; sure, it has a bit of a dog-ear and there's visible fold marks from long ago, but it's also 70 years old now!

I'm definitely not interested in getting this graded, but any insight as to the rarity or value of this bill is appreciated. I doubt I'll ever sell it, but it's something I would still like to know. Looking online, I hardly even see these 3-Ruble bills, much less any dating from 1951. I've seen one-Rubles from the 60s going for about 15 bucks, but not sure how reliable the website was I found that on (it was called World Bank Notes/Coins??).
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Re: 1951 3-Ruble Bank Note - Is This Rare?

#2 Unread post by Earle42 »

Whenever you are trying to find a value for an item such as this, eBay SOLD auctions show what people are currently paying for them. So if no one here can give a specific answer, that would be a place to start.

Generally speaking, most US forums for coins will have one or two specialists for coins of another country, but there are a lot of countries where information on coins and bills is very hard to find (if even available). Coin collecting used to be called the hobby of kings b/c coins were something the average person had to spend, not to collect.

Despite modern faslehoods in teaching US history, our way of government and business (actual capitalism vs. what they teach nowadays to demote the US) made a country for once where the middle class was a large reality. Hence coin collecting became well documented and popular with people as opposed to other countries where it took them a lot longer to get to that point.

So a lot of foreign coins and currency have nowhere near the hobby following/documentation about their coins.
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#3 Unread post by CoinPyro »

Earle42 wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 4:01 pm Whenever you are trying to find a value for an item such as this, eBay SOLD auctions show what people are currently paying for them. So if no one here can give a specific answer, that would be a place to start.

Generally speaking, most US forums for coins will have one or two specialists for coins of another country, but there are a lot of countries where information on coins and bills is very hard to find (if even available).
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So a lot of foreign coins and currency have nowhere near the hobby following/documentation about their coins.
I suspected as much. Honestly I may remove the question from the topic title and just have it here for some international currency hobbyist to smile at. Thanks for the reply; I already forgot I posted this 😂

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#4 Unread post by Triple C »

Your note is actually a Bulgarian 3 Leva, try the PMG site for future references:
https://www.pmgnotes.com/priceguide/wor ... earch=true
Pretty cool looking note!

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#5 Unread post by USSID18 »

For socialist communists, they sure put beautiful designs and artwork into their currency!
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#6 Unread post by silverbul »

3 RUB National flag of the Russian Federation = 0.04 USD National flag of the United States of America at the rate on 2021-11-26.

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silverbul wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 8:03 pm 3 RUB National flag of the Russian Federation = 0.04 USD National flag of the United States of America at the rate on 2021-11-26.
So what you're saying is, they pretty much burned these to heat their homes? 😂

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#8 Unread post by CoinPyro »

USSID18 wrote: Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:37 pm For socialist communists, they sure put beautiful designs and artwork into their currency!
I honestly love the design of this note. If I'm gonna collect international currency (or for that matter, if it's going to be printed period), you need to make it look cool. Otherwise, what's my motivation for tracking it down besides set hunting? It's why the $20 bill here in the US is boring to me. We need to bring back the olden notes, the ones covered corner to corner in gaudy/old antiquity portraits, number fonts, and landscapes!

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#9 Unread post by USSID18 »

That's ok, the Greenback can be as boring as it wants. Just as long as I don't have to burn them in the fireplace to heat my house.

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