Overprint 35 kopecks on 1 Kopeck 1918.
Civil War. Crimean Regional Government (Simferopol). General Matvei Sulkevich.

On June 25, 1918, in Simferopol, the First Crimean Regional Government was established under the chairmanship of General M. Sulkevich.

In 1918, this government issued a postage stamp: a typographic overprint in black ink with the new denomination "35 kopecks" on stamps of Russia’s twenty-first issue. The need for this issue was explained by the demand for a large number of stamps of this value, matching the cost of ordinary out-of-town letters in Crimea. The overprint was made in Simferopol at the former provincial printing house.

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