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10 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1887-1892 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1700-1917) |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ По предъявлении выдается из разменной кассы Государственного Банка ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ серебряною или золотою монетою Управляющий Кассир |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-red throughout, with a large numeral 10 and the inscription РУБЛЕЙ at left within a guilloche underprint. The Imperial double-headed eagle arms are set within a circular guilloche medallion at centre, while a vertical text panel at right contains printed regulations in small Cyrillic script. The entire field is enclosed within a geometric border incorporating repeated denomination numerals and РУБ. abbreviations. |
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The 1887–1892 State Credit Note series marked the culmination of a decade-long effort to restore the ruble to convertibility after the financial damage of the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War. Finance Minister Ivan Vyshnegradsky drove a brutal austerity program through the late 1880s — export grain even through domestic shortage — to rebuild the gold reserve that would eventually underpin the formal gold standard introduced by Witte in 1897. These notes circulated through that grinding transition.
Printed at the Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers in St. Petersburg, the series is notable for the tightening of anti-counterfeiting measures introduced after a significant forgery episode in the early 1880s.