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200 Roubles
| Issuer | Bank of Russia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Reference(s) | P#255 |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio vignette of Spasskaya Tower rising above the Kremlin wall in Moscow, flanked by adjacent structures, is rendered within an oval frame supported by ornate scrollwork flourishes at centre. Multicolour guilloche bands in pink and green run horizontally across the note, and large outline numerals '200' are placed at the lower left and lower right corners. A small Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting legend is printed in the upper left margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The 1993 Russian ruble series emerged from one of the more chaotic monetary transitions of the twentieth century. Following the Soviet collapse, Russia inherited the USSR's ruble zone alongside a dozen newly independent states all issuing their own currency demands on a single monetary base. The resulting hyperinflation — which ran at over 800% annually in 1993 — meant denominations that would have been unthinkable a few years earlier became workaday transaction notes almost immediately.
Print run of just over twelve million is low for a ruble note of this period. Many were rendered obsolete quickly as inflation pushed demand toward the higher denominations then entering circulation.