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100 Roubles 16 scrolls
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1924-1958) |
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| Obverse description | At left, an intaglio portrait vignette of Vladimir Lenin within an ornate oval frame surrounded by foliate scrollwork and laurel branches. The State Coat of Arms of the USSR appears at upper centre, flanked by the bank title in Cyrillic across the top. The denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ is rendered in large letterpress text across the centre, with the numeral 100 repeated at lower right within a guilloche panel. A two-line legal tender clause in small Cyrillic text and the year date 1947 appear at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | БИЛЕТ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА СССР СТО РУБЛЕЙ 100 (Translation: NOTE OF THE STATE BANK OF THE USSR ONE HUNDRED ROUBLES 100) |
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The 1947 Soviet monetary reform was one of the most aggressive currency confiscations of the postwar period. Announced on 14 December 1947 with almost no warning, citizens had three days to exchange old rubles at punishing rates — 10 old rubles for 1 new one for amounts above 3,000 rubles, effectively wiping out savings hoarded outside the banking system during the war years. The reform simultaneously abolished the rationing system that had been in place since 1941.
Pick 232 is distinguished from the otherwise similar P#231 by the count of decorative scrolls in the border — 16 rather than 15. That minor plate difference is the primary diagnostic between two notes that otherwise look identical to the casual eye and has caused persistent misattribution in collections.