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100 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1882-1894 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles (100 Рублей) |
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| Obverse description | The Imperial Russian coat of arms — a crowned double-headed eagle within a circular vignette — occupies the left portion of the note, surmounted by the Imperial crown and accompanied by the monogram of Emperor Alexander III. The central field carries the Cyrillic title Государственный кредитный билетъ (State Credit Note) above the denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ, with a text panel noting redeemability at the State Bank. The border is composed of fine repetitive guilloche patterns incorporating the numeral 100 at intervals, with СТО appearing at the corners. |
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| Reverse description | A finely engraved intaglio portrait of Catherine the Great is set within an oval vignette at the centre of the note, rendered in a formal imperial style. The year of issue appears at the top centre, flanked on either side by large guilloche rosettes each incorporating the numeral 100. The lower portion bears the denomination РУБЛЕЙ in bold letterpress, repeated symmetrically on both sides, with two columns of Imperial decree text flanking the central portrait. |
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The Expedition for the Procurement of State Papers — Ekspeditsiya Zagotovleniya Gosudarstvennykh Bumag — was an entirely state-run printing works established under Nicholas I in 1818 precisely to eliminate the security risks of contracting banknote production to foreign firms. By the 1882 issue, the facility had decades of intaglio experience and was producing notes of considerable technical sophistication entirely within the imperial bureaucracy, with no outside contractor involved at any stage.
The watermark on this series is integral to the paper rather than applied, made possible by the Expedition's control over pulp production as well as printing — an arrangement most contemporary European central banks could not replicate in-house.