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1 Silver Rouble
| Issuer | Bank Polski (Bank of Poland) |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1834-1866) |
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| Reverse description | Pale buff ground with a large central cartouche of fine guilloche work enclosing an oval panel, printed in orange-brown, containing trilingual text in French, English, and German identifying the note as a bank-note for one rouble silver issued by the Kingdom of Poland. The bold shadow numeral '1' spans the width of the cartouche as an underprint. Circular guilloche rosettes with the numeral '1' appear in each corner, and the Polish legend 'JEDEN RUBEL SREBREM' is printed in bold letterpress along the lower margin, with the Cyrillic legend 'ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ СЕРЕБРОМЪ' along the top. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper, readable as repeated text across the note field. |
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Bank Polski operated under strict Russian Imperial oversight following the crushing of the November Uprising in 1830, and by 1858 its note issues were effectively instruments of Russian monetary policy dressed in Polish institutional clothing. The Silver Rouble denomination — not the złoty — signals exactly where authority actually resided: Warsaw's banking apparatus had been fully subordinated to St. Petersburg's monetary system after 1841, when the złoty was officially abolished as a unit of account.
The P#A45 designation reflects catalog uncertainty about the full issuance record; surviving examples are sparse enough that precise mintage figures remain unknown.