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3 Silver Roubles
| Issuer | Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Size | 133 × 91 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in reddish-brown ink and shows, as a mirror image of the obverse layout, the full design visible in transparency through the thin paper. At centre is a large oval guilloche cartouche bearing the denomination '3' flanked by 'III' on either side, surrounded by a circular legend in English identifying the note as belonging to the Kingdom of Poland. A single manuscript signature appears at the lower centre of the field. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bank Polski occupied an unusual constitutional position — it was a Polish institution operating under Russian imperial oversight following the 1830 November Uprising, which had stripped the Kingdom of Poland of most autonomous functions by 1832. That a bank bearing the Polish name continued issuing notes denominated in roubles through the 1840s reflects the awkward hybrid status of the Congress Kingdom: nominally distinct, practically subordinate.
The silver rouble denomination was not incidental. Denominating in silver roubles rather than paper assignats was a deliberate signal of backing — the Russian government was itself struggling with assignat depreciation, and silver-denominated notes carried implicit convertibility claims that mattered to a mercantile public with long memories of currency collapse.
P#A23 status suggests limited surviving examples have been catalogued with certainty.