Merge lines of 3 Ruble 1947 USSR note

This note now has 2 lines: serials letters BIG small and small BIG

N#207950

I think I have a BIG BIG (but not 100% sure)

When we look at the different notes in that 1947 series, we see that some have all serial letters combined, some have some combinations and some all. Any ideas on what path to take? @Voided_Username01 

And as a second question, do these differentiations have any pont? Were some serial letter combinations earlier versions or from a different printer?

With this note specifically, it has 3 different variants that have BIG / BIG serials. They could’ve been added earlier, but I’ve been focusing on earlier years, before the Soviet Union (pre-1922) with my additions.

There doesn’t seem to necessarily be a point in distinguishing these differences, since nothing is detailed about there being a significant change to cause the serial letter cases.

Of the 16 ribbon ones (the one you have), there is a total of 9 variants for the 3 rouble note:

Type 1 font is the first description.

Type 1, but widely spaced letters is the second.

Type 2 is the third.

These are the differences in the fonts, respective to the descriptions:

Instead of listing every possible combination of letter case, I think it would be better to include the different fonts as variants, denoting which cases are specific to the fonts (e.g. “Font type one, wide spaced letters; BIG / BIG only.” in the description of one).

I can add them this weekend, if you don’t mind waiting, or you can go ahead and get a head start and I’ll verify them over a breakfast.

I hope this was helpful!

Thanks for the extra details. I agree adding the font is probably a more logical differentiation.

But if we do, we should try to find enough examples of the differences, as every Cyrillic letter already looks exotic enough … let alone if you need to recognise a font too 😉

Just as a test, I think mine is quite curly … so I guess type 2?

To me it looks like you’ve got type 1 😂, with this being type 2 of Э:

Exactly why we need to get clear examples of the differences ;-)

(for every letter … 🙄)

Luckily, it looks like the 1961 designs use the same two fonts!

Yep, there’s even a picture ready-made with all the letters used on these notes!

N#204573

It should be updated for specifically this note.