Catalog
50 Roubles
| Issuer | Expedition of Procurement of State Papers (Экспедиция заготовления государственных бумаг) |
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| Year | 1818-1843 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | At the upper centre, a crowned imperial double-headed eagle bearing an armorial shield at the breast serves as the principal vignette, with the denomination and treasury text arranged in the body of the note below. Two signature lines appear beneath the main inscription, the first typographically printed and the second completed in manuscript by an authorised signing official, in keeping with early nineteenth-century Russian assignat practice. |
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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.