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50 Roubles
| Issuer | Expedition of Procurement of State Papers (Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг) |
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| Year | 1818-1843 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A22 |
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| Reverse description | The verso is plain and unprinted, with large watermarked year numerals embedded in the paper substrate at centre; manuscript serial notations and handwritten control marks in ink appear at the upper left and upper right corners, consistent with Imperial Russian treasury accounting and authentication practice of the period. |
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| Protection description | Watermark incorporating the issue-year numerals formed within the paper substrate itself; a manuscript signature applied by an authorised official serves as an additional authenticity control. |
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The Expedition of Procurement of State Papers (EZGBs) was the Russian Empire's in-house security printing bureau, established in 1818 — the same year this series began. Centralizing note production there was a deliberate break from earlier reliance on foreign printers, particularly after the Napoleonic Wars exposed the risks of outsourcing monetary paper to potentially hostile nations.
The 25-year issuance window reflects not a single print run but successive batches, distinguished primarily by the handwritten signatures of rotating treasury officials — the only meaningful variable across the series. Authentication of those signatures remains the main forensic challenge with these notes.