Catalog
100 Roubles
| Issuer | State Treasury of Russia (Государственное Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Pink and black on light underprint. The reverse carries dense columns of printed Russian text setting out the conditions and regulations governing the State Treasury bond, arranged across the full face within guilloche frame borders; '100' appears in large open numerals at the upper right corner. At the foot of the note a bold inscription states the interest accrual date and series designation: 'ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТ ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТОГО ГОДА' followed by 'СЕРИЯ СDXXXIX (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА ТРИДЦАТЬ ДЕВЯТЬ)'. |
| Reverse lettering | ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТ ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТОГО ГОДА СЕРИЯ СDXXXIX (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА ТРИДЦАТЬ ДЕВЯТЬ) Положение о разряде (серии) билетов Государственного Казначейства за № СDXXXIX (439) |
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The State Treasury's 1914 short-term obligations — of which this is one — were issued not as conventional banknotes but as interest-bearing treasury certificates, technically debt instruments pressed into circulation as currency when war spending overwhelmed the ordinary money supply. Russia had suspended gold convertibility in late July 1914, within weeks of mobilization, and these notes filled the gap left by hoarded coin and withdrawn credit notes.
Pick 57 is frequently confused with the State Bank credit note issues of the same period. The distinction matters: different issuing authority, different legal obligation, same desperate fiscal moment.