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3 Roubles
| Issuer | Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (RSFSR) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| In circulation to | 1 November 1922 |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in green on plain paper, the obverse is divided into a symmetrical guilloche-bordered frame with large numeral "3" in each corner and the word "ТРИ" along the bottom edge. A central vignette carries the early Soviet state emblem — hammer and sickle set against a rising sun with wheat sheaves — rendered in fine line engraving. Below the emblem, a curved banner bears a legal obligation inscription in Cyrillic, followed by the designation "РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК Р.С.Ф.С.Р." and the mandatory circulation text in bold letterpress. |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 ТРИ |
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The 1919 RSFSR small-denomination notes were produced under conditions of extreme monetary chaos — the Bolshevik government was simultaneously fighting the Civil War, administering a collapsing banking system, and printing currency at a pace that rendered denominations obsolete almost as soon as they were issued. Hyperinflation was already visible in the denominator gap between what notes said and what they bought.
The watermark on this series is one of the few concessions to anti-counterfeiting discipline in an otherwise rushed production run. With over 12 million printed, survivors are common, but the extreme small format made these particularly vulnerable to wear and tearing at corners.