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3 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1905-1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a symmetrical guilloche pattern in green, with the numeral «3» repeated within the ornamental underprint as a security device. Three statutory legal clauses are set out in Cyrillic letterpress text, covering the gold backing of the notes, their parity with gold coin throughout the Empire, and the penalties for forgery. The layout is enclosed within a decorative engraved border consistent with the obverse design. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The sheer number of signature combinations on P#9 — running across three State Bank directors and dozens of cashiers over a sixteen-year span — reflects how long this single design remained in service without revision. Production continued well past the February Revolution; the Provisional Government kept issuing pre-revolutionary State Bank notes rather than immediately introducing new paper, meaning identical notes circulated under both the Tsar and Kerensky.
Collectors chasing complete signature sets face a genuine puzzle: some cashier pairings appear far less frequently than others, and the print run figure of just over twelve million is modest for a note active across that many years and two regime changes.