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5 Roubles 16 scrolls
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| In circulation to | 1 April 1961 |
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| Reverse description | The central design comprises a hammer-and-sickle emblem set within an elaborate guilloche medallion, surrounded by dense scrollwork and lathe-work underprint in blue and multicolour tones. The Cyrillic abbreviation СССР appears at the top within a decorative cartouche flanked by foliage, while the denomination ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is inscribed in bold intaglio lettering below the central vignette. Numerals 5 appear at lower left and right, and a text panel above the denomination carries the statutory obligation and counterfeiting warning in Russian. |
| Reverse lettering | СССР пять рублей 5 Государственные казначейские билеты обязательны к приёму на всей территории СССР во все платежи для всех учреждений, предприятий и лиц по нарицательной стоимости. Подделка государственных казначейских билетов преследуется по закону. (Translation: USSR Five roubles 5. State Treasury Notes are obligatory for acceptance throughout the USSR in all payments by all institutions, enterprises and persons at face value. Counterfeiting of state treasury notes is prosecuted by law.) |
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The 1947 Soviet monetary reform was one of the most abrupt currency confiscations of the postwar period. Announced without warning on 14 December 1947, citizens had three days to exchange old rubles at a rate of ten-to-one — a deliberate mechanism to wipe out savings accumulated through black market activity during the war years. This note was issued as part of that reform, simultaneously abolishing the rationing system that had been in place since 1941.
The "16 scrolls" designation distinguishes this from later printings of the same denomination, which differ in the number of scroll ornaments in the guilloche borders — a detail that matters for attribution within the series.