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5000 Roubles 50 Shamil
| Issuer | Tatarstan (Russia) |
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| Year | 1996 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Kazan Kremlin complex rendered in blue, with fortress walls, ecclesiastical domes, and a tall spire executed over a fine guilloche underprint. An ornate blue guilloche border with rosette cornerpieces frames the design, while the bilingual inscriptions ТАТАРСТАН and TATARSTAN appear within the lower border panel. A serial number in black is printed at upper left. |
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| Variants | P#12a - blue color P#12b - green color |
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This note belongs to a short-lived regional coupon series issued by Tatarstan during the republic's push for expanded sovereignty within the Russian Federation — a political tension that dominated the mid-1990s and was only partially resolved by the bilateral treaty signed with Moscow in February 1994. The "50 Shamil" denomination is a dual-value expression: the Shamil was Tatarstan's proposed regional currency unit, never formally adopted, which gives these notes an ambiguous legal status that was never cleanly resolved.
Circulation was effectively symbolic. The Russian Central Bank never recognized the Shamil as a legitimate monetary unit, and the notes functioned at best as local scrip.