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500 Gold Roubles Payment obligation
| Emisor | Central Cash Office of the People's Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin) |
|---|---|
| Año | 1923 |
| Tipo | Non-circulating banknote |
| Valor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Moneda | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Composición | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tamaño | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Forma | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Impresor | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Diseñador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Grabador(es) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| En circulación hasta | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Referencia(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del anverso | At left, an oval vignette with a bust of a worker in three-quarter view, enclosed within a laurel border bearing the Cyrillic motto of the Communist International along the outer edge; at upper left, the denomination '500' within a circular cartouche inscribed 'ЗОЛОТО'; at upper right, the Soviet state arms. The body of the note is composed of typeset Cyrillic letterpress text detailing the terms of the payment obligation, below which appear three manuscript signatures of officials, including the People's Commissar of Finance and the heads of the State and Currency Directorates. The serial number appears at lower left and upper right. |
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| Leyenda del anverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Descripción del reverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Leyenda del reverso | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Firma(s) | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Tipo de protección | Perforated numeral |
| Descripción de la protección | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Variantes | Inicie sesión para ver los detalles |
| Comentarios |
The "gold rouble" denominations of 1923 were not gold-backed currency in any redeemable sense — they were an accounting fiction introduced to stabilize a monetary system hemorrhaging value through hyperinflation. The sovznak, the ordinary paper rouble circulating at the time, was depreciating so rapidly that the state began quoting taxes and state obligations in hypothetical "gold roubles" tied to the pre-revolutionary gold standard rate. These notes formalized that practice, giving it a physical instrument.
Narkomfin issued them as payment obligations rather than banknotes proper — a legal distinction that mattered in 1923, when the new chervonets coinage was being introduced and monetary policy was in open flux. The perforated numeral security feature is characteristic of Soviet fiscal instruments of this transitional period, borrowed from pre-revolutionary treasury practice.
The series was short-lived; the 1924 monetary reform replaced the entire sovznak-gold rouble parallel system with unified chervonets-based currency.