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5.000 Rubley
| Issuer | State Treasury of Russia |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal letterpress-printed text document in Cyrillic, constituting a 5% short-term obligation of the State Treasury (краткосрочное обязательство Государственного Казначейства), with the denomination Руб. 5000 at upper right and an official stamp impression at upper left. The body text pledges payment to bearer on 1 April 1918 at the State Bank and its branches, with the place and date of issue — Петроградъ, 1 Апрѣля 1917 г. — at lower right. Two handwritten signatures of the Director of the State Treasury Department and the Chief Accountant appear centrally, with a serial number printed at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is covered by a plain yellow-ochre guilloche underprint composed of a repetitive fine geometric rosette pattern. No vignettes, inscriptions, or secondary design elements are present. |
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This note belongs to the extraordinary burst of emergency paper issued by the Provisional Government in 1917, after the February Revolution dismantled the tsarist administration but before the Bolsheviks seized power in October. The Provisional Government inherited a treasury already gutted by three years of war finance and continued printing at pace — the State Treasury, not the State Bank, was the formal issuer precisely because the legal status of the central banking apparatus was itself in dispute.
High-denomination notes of this series were widely nicknamed "Duma money" and circulated alongside Kerensky-era small fractional notes in a collapsing monetary environment. By late 1917, inflation had made even 5,000 rubles a practical denomination rather than a large one.