Some Kind Of USSR Revenue... Not Sure About From Which Period

Surely some kind of early USSR Revenue stamp, but I am not sure from which period and about the usage... overprint itself is inverted and it looks that one word in it suggest something about customs usage, and another about something about philatelic usage. Any idea?

Hi filipo,

This appears to be SG T402a from 1923. It's also listed in Michel.

It's a change control insurance stamp surcharged in gold kopeks for use as an oblligatory tax (postal tax) stamp on covers sent abroad that contained stamps and other collectables.

Interesting, but judging by the original denomination - 3p - the original stamp would be Finnish, and not Russian. The P would indicate pennia, the currency of Finland under the Russian Empire. The overprint, as nigelc points out, is in kopeks, converting it to Russian.

Thank you for the fast answer, Nigelc!

James - in the Russian language the letter "R" is written as "P"... so, what you see is as 3p actually means 3 Rubles.

Oh, ok. Just learned something.
Thanks filipo. Nice to 'see' you again.

Thank you for the welcoming, James. Nice to see you, too.

Btw. you can learn Russian script (also used on Serbian and Bulgarian stamps + some other ex-Soviet's eg. Ukrainian) very easy... some of the letters are same as in the Western... A, E, M, K, O, T... you can learn the rest in about half of an hour.



@ NigelC - is note for the inverted overprint mentioned in the SG catalog? As you have advised me, I have found this control insurance stamp in the Michel's... MI 4C (because it has perforations 12,5)... but didn't find any notes about the inverted overprints. Try to found it also in Soloviev specialized catalog of USSR stamps, but this control stamps is not mentioned at all. However, for other control stamps from that period are mentioned existing of the inverted oveprint examples.

However, a really interesting usage in the early Soviet republic in 1923... didn't expect to be so specific in the way of the usage.