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100 Roubles
| Issuer | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Soviet Republic (RSFSR) ‒ Rouble (1921-1923) |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in yellow-ochre on a plain white ground within a decorative rectangular border. The large numeral '100' appears at centre, flanked by the Cyrillic denomination 'СТО РУБЛЕЙ' in bold letterpress type, with the RSFSR state arms vignette at right. The inscription 'РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК' heads the design, below which the guarantee text 'ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ' and the year '1921' are printed; the denomination 'СТО РУБЛЕЙ' is repeated in the top and bottom panels of the border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing plain cream-coloured paper with a visible laid texture and no design elements or inscriptions. |
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The 1921 RSFSR note issues came during the most acute phase of Soviet hyperinflation, when the Bolshevik government was printing money at a rate that made denomination planning almost irrelevant — 100 roubles by this point had the purchasing power of a small fraction of a pre-war kopek. The series was part of a broader flood of sovznaki, the Soviet paper currency that replaced the old tsarist and Provisional Government notes but carried no commodity backing whatsoever.
NEP reforms introduced in 1921 would eventually lead to the chervonets system and the wholesale demonetization of sovznaki by 1924, rendering this note worthless by official decree.