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25 Roubles
| Issuer | State Bank of the Russian Empire |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Printer | Expedition of Procurement of State Papers (EZGB), St. Petersburg |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of Mother Russia as an allegorical standing figure holding a shield, flanked by two children at her feet, one holding ears of corn and the other an alphabet tablet, symbolising the diverse peoples of the Empire. The denomination ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ appears in large lettering, framed by intricate guilloche underprint work. The heading ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ is inscribed across the top, with the gold-exchange clause text below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by six female portrait heads arranged in two rows of three, with those on the left facing right and those on the right facing left, set against an elaborate guilloche background of fine lathe-work patterns. The denomination numeral 25 appears within ornamental panels, and the three statutory clauses governing the note's legal status and anti-counterfeiting penalties are printed in two columns of Cyrillic text. |
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| Protection description | Portrait watermark of Tsar Alexander III visible in the paper, surrounded by ornamental patterned watermark along the margins |
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