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1000 Roubles
| Issuer | Tatarstan (Russia) |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink-toned note with a decorative floral guilloche border framing the entire face. The central vignette presents a panoramic view of the Kazan Kremlin skyline, beneath a circular seal of Tatarstan bearing a stylised snow leopard (aq bars) with the Cyrillic inscription ТАТАРСТАН at upper centre, and a large calligraphic Arabic-script numeral forming the value underprint to the right. Serial number is positioned at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ТАТАРСТАН |
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Tatarstan's early-1990s currency experiments were a direct product of the sovereignty push following the USSR's collapse. The republic held a referendum in March 1992 in which voters backed a formulation of sovereignty ambiguous enough for Kazan to interpret as near-independence. These notes — never formally recognized as legal tender by Moscow — functioned as a kind of coupon scrip rather than a true parallel currency, used domestically when the Russian ruble supply was erratic and severely devalued.
The series was discontinued as Tatarstan's relationship with the federal center gradually normalized through bilateral treaty negotiations culminating in 1994. By mid-decade the coupons had been withdrawn, and surviving examples in any condition are modestly scarce given the low regard in which they were held at the time of issue.