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5 Roubles
| Issuer | Soviet Union |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Size | 145 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИЙ БИЛЕТ СССР ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 1938 ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЕ КАЗНАЧЕЙСКИЕ БИЛЕТЫ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЮТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ СОЮЗА ССР И ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНЫ К ПРИЕМУ НА ВСЕЙ ТЕРРИТОРИИ СССР ВО ВСЕ ПЛАТЕЖИ ДЛЯ ВСЕХ УЧРЕЖДЕНИЙБ ПРЕДПРИЯТИЙБ И ЛИЦ ПО НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНОЙ СТОИМОСТИ (Translation: USSR STATE TREASURY NOTE FIVE ROUBLES 1938 STATE TREASURY NOTES ARE BACKED BY THE PROPERTY OF THE USSR AND MUST TO BE ACCEPTED AS PAYMENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE TERRITORY OF THE USSR BY ALL ESTABLISHMENTS, ENTERPRISES AND PERSONS AT FACE VALUE.) |
| Reverse description | Blue guilloché frame with abstract ornamental design surrounds a large central multicolour cartouche bearing the denomination in Russian, flanked on either side by the denomination rendered in ten languages of the Soviet republics. Each corner of the frame contains a smaller multicolour guilloché cartouche with the white numeral '5', providing decorative symmetry to the overall layout. |
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The 1938 Goznak series replaced the earlier 1934 issues as Stalin's purges were reshaping every institution in the USSR, including the People's Commissariat of Finance. The 5 Rouble denomination in this series was notable for being the lowest value to carry the worker-and-peasant imagery that defined Soviet paper currency through the late Stalin period — smaller denominations at the time were issued as treasury notes (kazznacheyskie bilety) under different statutory authority than the state bank notes (gosudarstvennye kaznacheyskie bilety) that comprise this series.
Goznak had been the sole producer of Soviet currency since the early 1920s, operating from the same Moscow facility that had served the Tsarist Expedition for State Paper Manufacture since 1818.