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2 Roubles
| Issuer | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ДВА РУБЛЯ ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК Р.С.Ф.С.Р. ОБЯЗАТЕЛЕН К ОБРАЩЕНИЮ НАРАВНЕ С КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper; specific pattern varies by printing batch. |
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The RSFSR's tiny 1919 low-denomination notes were produced under extreme wartime pressure, with the Soviet state simultaneously fighting multiple White Army fronts and managing a currency system in near-total collapse. Hyperinflation was already rendering small-denomination paper nearly worthless before it even left the press — the 2-Rouble face value was trivial by any contemporary measure.
At just over 12 million printed, the run was modest. The watermark — a grid or lozenge pattern depending on the paper batch — is the one security feature, though the real obstacle to counterfeiting was that the notes were barely worth forging.