100 Roubles 16 scrolls

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.