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100 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the USSR (Gosbank) |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Reference(s) | P#236 |
| Obverse description | Left of centre, an oval intaglio vignette carries a three-quarter bust portrait of V. I. Lenin facing right, set against fine guilloche underprint in brown tones. To the right, the State Emblem of the USSR is rendered within a circular medallion, flanked by ornate foliate scrollwork. The denomination appears in large stylised Cyrillic script at centre-bottom, with the numeral 100 repeated in a guilloche rosette at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The left portion of the reverse carries a multicolour guilloche rosette with the numeral 100. The central vignette presents an intaglio view of the Kremlin's Borovitskaya Tower and surrounding walls, with the Cathedral of the Assumption visible in the background. To the right, a large guilloche medallion bears the numeral 100, above the denomination in Cyrillic script and its equivalents in the fourteen other official languages of the Soviet republics. |
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The 1961 Soviet currency reform was a straight redenomination at 10:1 — one new rouble replaced ten old ones — carried out as part of Khrushchev's broader economic rationalization drive. The 100-rouble note in this series effectively represented what had been a 1,000-rouble note under the previous issue, a denomination most ordinary Soviet workers would rarely have handled in a single transaction.
Goznak, the Soviet state printing authority, produced the entire 1961 series through what would become an extraordinarily long run; notes from this issue remained in circulation until the USSR's dissolution and beyond, outlasting the state that issued them by several years.