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10 Roubles
| Issuer | Assignation Bank (Assignatsionny Bank) |
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| Year | 1787-1817 |
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| Size | 170 × 130 mm |
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| Obverse description | Unframed letterpress text in Cyrillic script set diagonally across the note, with the denomination numeral '10' at upper left and the value word ДЕСЯТЬ printed in a bold oval cartouche at right. The main text reads the obligation of the Assignation Bank to pay the bearer ten roubles in coin, dated 1788, followed by two manuscript signatures of bank officials and a handwritten serial number repeated at multiple positions. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Russia's assignat system was launched by Catherine II in 1769 as a pragmatic fix for a chronic shortage of copper coin — the empire's primary transactional currency — which had become physically unwieldy for large payments. The Assignation Bank was never truly an independent institution; it operated as an arm of the treasury, which meant the note supply was governed more by state expenditure than by any banking discipline. Successive wars against the Ottomans, Sweden, and later Napoleon drove massive overissue, and by 1810 the assignat ruble had lost roughly two-thirds of its silver parity.
The 1817 date marks the final year of issue before the series was frozen ahead of the eventual redemption program, which dragged on until 1843.