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25 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Value | 25 Roubles (25 Рублей) |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Государственный банкъ размѣниваетъ кредитные билеты на золотую монету безъ ограниченiя суммы (1 р. - 1/15 имперiала содержитъ 17,424 долей чистаго золота) (Translation: STATE CREDIT TICKET TWENTY-FIVE RUBLES The State Bank exchanges credit notes for gold coins without limiting the amount (1 ruble - 1/15 imperial contains 17,424 shares of pure gold)) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by six female portrait heads arranged in two rows of three, with those on the left facing right and those on the right facing left, set against an elaborate guilloche background of fine lathe-work patterns. The denomination numeral 25 appears within ornamental panels, and the three statutory clauses governing the note's legal status and anti-counterfeiting penalties are printed in two columns of Cyrillic text. |
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The 1899 series was the last major issue of the Russian Imperial State Bank before the upheavals of the twentieth century consumed both the institution and the currency. The sheer volume of cashier signature combinations — over thirty documented pairings across two State Bank directors, Eduard Pleske and Sergei Timashev — reflects a note that remained in active production and circulation for well over a decade, spanning the Russo-Japanese War, the 1905 revolution, and into the First World War period.
Pleske served as State Bank director until 1903; Timashev held the post from 1903 to 1909, giving collectors a rough terminus for each signature group. The secondary signatories were serving cashiers, and their rotation through the pairings is the primary tool for sequencing printings within the series.