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500 Roubles
| Issuer | Tatarstan (Russia) |
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| Year | 1993-1995 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Vignette of the Kazan Kremlin at centre-left against a multicolour guilloche underprint, with a large Arabic-script numeral at right. The circular green seal of Tatarstan, bearing the winged snow leopard emblem, is positioned at upper centre, inscribed ТАТАРСТАН. A decorative floral border in green frames the entire note, with a traditional Tatar folk-art pattern along the lower margin. Serial number printed in red at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | ТАТАРСТАН |
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Tatarstan issued its own currency series in the early 1990s as part of a broader push for sovereignty from Moscow — a political project that never fully materialized. These notes functioned as a local supplement to the Russian rouble rather than a true replacement, usable within the republic but not accepted outside it. The timing placed them squarely in the post-Soviet monetary chaos, when the Russian Federation itself was struggling to control inflation and currency supply.
The series was short-lived. By the mid-1990s, Tatarstan had backed down from the harder edges of its independence program, and these notes were withdrawn. Surviving examples in any condition are not especially common.