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100 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1700-1917) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in muted rose and green tones, the reverse centres on a large guilloche rosette bearing the numeral 100, with the Imperial double-headed eagle coat of arms positioned to the centre-right alongside the inscription РУБЛЕЙ. The entire field is enclosed within an elaborate interlocking guilloche border, and the denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ is repeated in Cyrillic lettering along all four margins. |
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| Signature(s) | 1898-1903 - E. Pleske and P. Brut 1903-1909 - S. Timashev and A. Mrozovsky 1909-1910 - A. Konshin and A. Mrozovsky 1910-1914 - I. Shipov and A. Mrozovsky |
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The 1898 series was issued following the Witte monetary reform, which pegged the rouble to gold at a new rate and made State Bank notes legally exchangeable for coin — a credibility measure designed to attract foreign capital and stabilize Russia's chronically volatile currency. This note circulated continuously under four different signature combinations across sixteen years, each pairing reflecting a change of State Bank director while the underlying plate remained unchanged.
EZGB, the in-house imperial printing works, had produced Russian banknotes since the 1860s and kept production entirely domestic — no foreign contractors, unlike many contemporary European issues.