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250 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of Russia (Государственный Банк) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 175 × 104 mm |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on a lilac guilloche underprint. The central field carries the large Cyrillic denomination legend «ДВѢСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ» above a clause in smaller type affirming convertibility into gold coin; bold numerals «250» over «РУБЛЕЙ» in ornate cartouches flank the text at left and right. Two manuscript signatures — those of the Manager (Управляющий) and the Cashier (Кассиръ) — appear below, with the year 1917 at foot centre; thirteen distinct signature varieties are recorded for this type. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ ДВѢСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ 250 РУБЛЕЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ РАЗМѢНИВАЕТЪ КРЕДИТНЫЕ БИЛЕТЫ НА ЗОЛОТУЮ МОНЕТУ БЕЗЪ ОГРАНИЧЕНІЯ СУММЫ (1 РУБЛЬ = 1/15 ИМПЕРІАЛА, СОДЕРЖИТЪ 17,424 ДОЛЕЙ ЧИСТАГО ЗОЛОТА) Управляющій Кассиръ 1917 |
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The 250 Rouble note was a creature of revolutionary instability — issued by the Provisional Government's State Bank in 1917, between the February Revolution and the Bolshevik takeover in October. The denomination itself was new; no pre-war Russian note had circulated at this level, and the government introduced it to cope with catastrophic inflation and the near-total breakdown of coin circulation driven by wartime hoarding.
Printed by the state printing works in Petrograd, the series is sometimes called the "Duma money" colloquially, though that attribution is loose. Enormous quantities were produced, and the notes remained nominally valid through the early Soviet period before being demonetized. High-grade survivors are scarcer than their print runs suggest — heavy circulation in a society running short of everything left most examples worn.