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3 Silver Roubles
| Issuer | Bank Polski |
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| Year | 1841 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1834-1866) |
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| Obverse lettering | ПОЛЬСКIЙ БАНКЪ ВЫДАЕТЪ ПРЕДЪЯВИТЕЛЮ ТРИ РУБЛИ СЕРЕБРОМЪ СЧИТАЯ ОДИНЪ РУССКIЙ ФУНТЪ ЧИСТАГО СЕРЕБРА ВЪ 22½ РУБЛЯ BANK POLSKI WYPŁACI OKAZICIELOWI TRZY RUBLE SREBREM WEDŁUG STOPY 22½ Z CZYSTEGO FUNTA WAGI ROSSYJSKIEJ PREZES BANKU DYREKTOR BANKU |
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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.