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5 Roubles
| Issuer | Assignation Bank of Russia (Ассигнационный банк) |
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| Year | 1819-1843 |
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| Value | 5 Roubles (5 Рублей) |
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| Obverse lettering | Объявителю сей государственной ассиг- нации платитъ ассигнационный банкъ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ходячею монетою. Управляющий Кн Хованский Кассир 1819 ГОДА (Translation: The declarant of this state banknote is paid by the bank of banknotes FIVE ROUBLES in current coin. Managing Prince Khovansky Cashier Year of 1819) |
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| Protection description | Year of issue and denomination watermark. Legend around: `ГОСУДАРСТВЕН: БАНКОВАЯ АССИГНАЦ: ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ.` (`State banknote five roubles`) |
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The Assignation Bank (Assignatsionny Bank) was established by Catherine II in 1769 specifically to fund military expenditures without depleting the silver reserve — a fiscal shortcut that worked briefly and then spectacularly didn't. By the time this note was issued, assignats had been circulating for half a century and were deeply discounted against silver coin, a gap the government repeatedly failed to close through forced exchange rates.
The 1819–1843 date range for this denomination reflects the long stagnation before Kankrin's 1843 reform, which finally abolished assignats and replaced them with credit rubles at a fixed rate of 3½ assignat rubles to 1 silver ruble — officially acknowledging the depreciation that markets had priced in for decades.