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100 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Value | 100 000 Roubles (100 000 RUR) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents an intaglio-printed quadriga — the Apollo group sculpture atop the Bolshoi Theatre portico — rendered in brown tones against a yellow-green guilloche underprint. The double-headed eagle emblem of the Bank of Russia appears in the upper left, with the serial number printed twice in red and green. A vertical geometric guilloche band in purple and pink occupies the left margin, while the denomination numeral 100 000 and the legend БИЛЕТ БАНКА РОССИИ are set in large letterpress type across the upper field. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette carries an intaglio view of the Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр) façade in Moscow, rendered in fine brown line engraving with the Apollo quadriga visible above the portico pediment, set against a light pink and cream guilloche underprint. A decorative cartouche bearing the inscription МОСКВА appears below the building vignette at lower centre. A vertical guilloche band in green and gold occupies the right margin, and the denomination numeral 100 000 is repeated in large letterpress type at upper left and upper right, with the year date 1995 in green at lower right. |
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The 1995 Russian 100,000-rouble note exists because inflation had, by that point, reduced the purchasing power of paper money to a degree that required six-figure denominations for routine transactions. This was the peak of the post-Soviet hyperinflationary spiral — the rouble had lost roughly 99% of its pre-1991 value by the mid-1990s, and Goznak's presses in Moscow were producing denominations that would have been unimaginable under the Soviet system.
The series was short-lived. A 1997 redenomination replaced 1,000 old roubles with one new rouble, instantly rendering notes like this one obsolete. Pick #265 was withdrawn before it had time to wear heavily in circulation, which accounts for the relative frequency of high-grade survivors.