Catalog
1 Silver Rouble
| Issuer | Bank Polski (Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1847 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse is enclosed within an ornate rectangular frame of guilloche borders surrounding a central oval panel bearing the denomination inscription in French, English, and German, each arranged in three lines. The numeral "1" appears in large italic form at both the left and right sides within the frame, while the Cyrillic denomination legend is set in bold letterpress at the top margin and the Polish legend runs in large spaced type along the bottom margin. |
| Reverse lettering | ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ СЕРЕБРОМЪ. BILLET DE BANQUE. UN ROUBLE ARGENT. ROYAUME DE POLOGNE. BANK NOTE. ONE ROUBLE SILVER. KINGDOM OF POLAND. BANKBILLET. EIN RUBEL SILBER. KOENIGREICH POLEN. JEDEN RUBEL SREBREM. |
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Bank Polski operated as a nominally Polish institution under deep Russian imperial control by the 1840s, and this note reflects that tension directly. The Silver Rouble denomination pegged Polish paper currency to the Russian monetary system — a deliberate policy of fiscal integration following the failed November Uprising of 1830, through which Warsaw's financial autonomy was methodically dismantled over the following decade.
The bank was abolished entirely in 1885, its functions absorbed by the Russian State Bank. Notes from the 1847 series survived in relatively small numbers; the Polish provinces were not kind to paper currency, and redemption drives were thorough.