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5000 Roubles
| Issuer | People's Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin), RSFSR |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | The face is enclosed within an ornate guilloche border with decorative scrollwork at each corner, with the year 1923 printed at top and bottom margins. The central field bears the bold Cyrillic denomination ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ flanked on either side by the numeral 5000 set within decorative panels, over an underprint of the RSFSR state arms; the legend ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК appears above the central inscription, while signature lines for the People's Commissar of Finance and the Cashier are positioned below. The underprint text ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ runs across the lower central field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse centres on a large engine-turned guilloche rosette in green tones, with the numeral 5000 printed boldly at its centre. Eight lines of Cyrillic text arranged in the central field state the legal tender obligation of the 1923 currency notes pursuant to the decree of 24 October 1922, while the denomination 5000 РУБЛЕЙ appears in smaller figures within lateral guilloche panels on each side. |
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The 1923 RSFSR note issues occupy an awkward transitional moment: the Soviet state was simultaneously running down the old sovznak system and preparing the ground for the chervonets reform that had already begun the previous year. These high-denomination sovznaki were being printed into irrelevance almost as fast as they left the press, their face value consumed by hyperinflation before they could meaningfully circulate. A 5000-rouble note in early 1923 represented a fraction of what a 100-rouble note had bought two years prior.
Narkomfin issued several parallel denomination series in 1923, which creates genuine confusion in cataloguing — some notes bear the same nominal value but differ in lithographic detail or paper stock, and are not always consistently distinguished in dealer stock.