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10 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК РОССИЙСКОЙ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАТИВНОЙ СОВЕТСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ 10 000 РУБЛЕЙ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ НАРОДНЫЙ КОМИССАР ФИНАНСОВ КАССИР |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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By 1919, the Sovznak printing program was producing notes at a pace that outstripped any meaningful economic relationship between denomination and purchasing power. This 10,000 Rouble note — an enormous figure by pre-revolutionary standards — was already losing real value faster than it could be distributed. The RSFSR issued these large denominations not as a deliberate inflationary policy per se, but as a practical response to the catastrophic monetary chaos of civil war, Allied intervention, and the near-total collapse of tax revenue.
Paper quality and impression consistency vary considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime supply shortages at the state printing works.