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The E-Sylum: Volume 21, Number 25, June 24, 2018, Article 36

RUSSIA'S SOUVENIR WORLD CUP BANKNOTE
Russia's souvenir World Cup banknote has become very popular. Here's an excerpt from a June 20, 2018 Moscow Times article. -Editor

2018 Russia Souvenir World Cup Banknote

Distrusted at first by some as dodgy cash, a special World Cup 100-ruble ($1.57) banknote with a picture of iconic Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin has become a collectors' item, with Russians willing to pay several times its face value to get their hands on it.

Tinted in hues of blue, yellow and green, the note features a boy dressed in a football jersey and holding a ball as he watches a diving Yashin – an image that is meant to symbolize the appeal of football across generations.

Before the tournament got under way last week, some traders in Yekaterinburg were reluctant to accept the unfamiliar polymer notes, which came into circulation less than a month ago.

Now, demand has gone through the roof.

"We've run out of them. We were told we may get more but we're not 100 percent sure. We're still waiting," said Marina Gorbunova, a bank teller at the cavernous Sberbank branch in central Yekaterinburg.

Another bank employee, Dmitry, said more than 300 people, mostly Russians, had queued up on Saturday to obtain the limited-edition notes.

A local coin seller said he had none available but that they were going for six times face value in smaller kiosks, while some fans had paid up to 900 rubles in nearby Vaynera Street. Chinese collectors, he added, were particularly keen.

To read the complete article, see:

Souvenir World Cup Banknote Runs Short With Popular Demand (https://themoscowtimes.com/news/souvenir-world-cup-banknote-runs-short-with-popular-demand-61930)
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