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What Is This Overprint On Russian 10k Stamp?

 
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Posted 02/19/2015   11:36 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add maverickx to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Any ideas as to what this over stamp is?

Thanks!

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Posted 02/20/2015   12:03 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Cjd to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It would purport to be Russia Offices in Turkey. I haven't compared it to anything.
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Posted 02/20/2015   12:38 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add area66 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Yes it's a very common "Offices in Turkey" 1 Piastre over 10k

note; here in Quebec in our slang language we use piastre for dollars, I have no idea how come Turkey use it too.
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Edited by area66 - 02/20/2015 12:41 am
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Posted 02/20/2015   05:58 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Damian to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Piaster is the Turkish word for Pound. I guess that's the connection ;-)
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I don't think so, our piastre don't come from the pound, actually for our ancestors, the piastre ( pronounce also piasse here ) was 120 sous, so 120 sous = 100 cents, we still call a 25 cents a 30 sous . The Italian was using a Piastra, probably it come from there. It's a French Canadian thing; in the rest of Canada they don't know that name. Wiki is more confusing than other thing when I search for it.
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