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1 Rouble 15 scrolls
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИЙ БИЛЕТ СССР ОДИН РУБЛЬ ОДИН КАРБОВАНЕЦЬ · АДЗІН РУБЕЛЬ БИР МАНАТ · ᲔᲠᲗᲘ ᲛᲐᲜᲔᲗᲘ · ՄԵԿ ՌՈՒԲԼԻ БИР МАНАТ · БИР СУМ · ЯК СУМ · БИР СОМ БИР СОМ · YKSI RUPLA · О РУБЛЭ VIENAS RUBLIUS · VIENS RUBLIS · ÜKS RUBLA (Translation: STATE TREASURY NOTE OF THE USSR ONE ROUBLE / ONE KARBOVANETS · ONE RUBLE [Belarusian] / ONE MANAT [Azerbaijani] · ONE MANET [Georgian] · ONE RUBLE [Armenian] / ONE MANAT [Turkmen] · ONE SUM [Uzbek] · ONE SUM [Tajik] · ONE SOM [Kyrgyz] / ONE SOM [Kazakh] · ONE RUPLA [Finnish/Karelian] · ONE RUBLE [Moldovan] / ONE RUBLIS [Lithuanian] · ONE RUBLIS [Latvian] · ONE RUBLA [Estonian]) |
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| Reverse lettering | ОДИН РУБЛЬ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЕ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИЕ БИЛЕТЫ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЮТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ СОЮЗА ССР И ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНЫ К ПРИЕМУ НА ВСЕЙ ТЕРРИТОРИИ СССР ВО ВСЕ ПЛАТЕЖИ ДЛЯ ВСЕХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙ, ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙ И ЛИЦ ПО НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНОЙ СТОИМОСТИ. ПОДДЕЛКА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИХ БИЛЕТОВ ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ. (Translation: ONE ROUBLE / STATE TREASURY NOTES ARE BACKED BY ALL THE WEALTH OF THE UNION OF SSR AND ARE OBLIGATORY FOR ACCEPTANCE THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR FOR ALL PAYMENTS BY ALL INSTITUTIONS, ENTERPRISES AND PERSONS AT FACE VALUE. / COUNTERFEITING OF STATE TREASURY NOTES IS PROSECUTED BY LAW.) |
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The 1947 reform was a confiscatory redenomination — the Soviet government exchanged old rubles for new at a rate that effectively punished those who had accumulated savings outside the banking system. Peasants and rural populations, who distrusted banks and kept cash at home, bore the worst of it. Notes were exchanged at 10:1 for amounts held privately above certain thresholds, while bank deposits received more favorable treatment.
The "15 scrolls" designation distinguishes this variety from the 16-scroll version within the same emission — a minor guilloche difference used by collectors to differentiate print runs from the same year.