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10 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire (Государственный Банк) |
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| Year | 1895 |
| Type | Non-circulating banknote |
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| Obverse description | Deposit Metallic Receipt (Депозитная Металлическая Квитанция) issued by the State Bank, with the bank title in bold letterpress at top. The text body names the accepting offices — St. Petersburg, Moscow, Warsaw, Riga, Odessa and Rostov-on-Don — and specifies redemption in gold coin equivalent to ten roubles. The denomination numeral '10' appears in a circular guilloche cartouche at upper right, with serial numbers at upper left and lower right, the date '1895 года' and two manuscript signatures at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light-green paper reverse bearing a large embossed circular seal at centre with the inscription ДЕПОЗИТНАЯ МЕТАЛЛИЧЕСКАЯ КВИТАНЦІЯ around the circumference and the year '1895.' within. A subtle guilloche underprint pattern covers the entire surface, giving the note its security character. |
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The 1895 series marks a transitional moment in Russian state banking: these notes were issued under the gold standard reform program championed by Finance Minister Sergei Witte, who was actively reorienting the ruble toward full convertibility — achieved formally in 1897. Notes from this period circulated alongside the older credit ruble system while the peg was being established, creating a brief overlap that makes precise attribution of individual examples tricky.
The embossed seal on this series was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure introduced after a well-documented wave of forgeries in the late 1880s had embarrassed the State Bank.