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50 Roubles
| Issuer | Государственное Казначейство (State Treasury of Russia) |
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| Year | 1913 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a dense columnar text in Cyrillic setting out the regulatory provisions governing this series of State Treasury bonds (Положеніе о разрядѣ билетовъ Государственнаго Казначейства). At foot, a separate panel states in full the series designation СЕРІЯ СДХХХVIII (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА ТРИДЦАТЬ ВОСЬМАЯ) and the commencement date for interest accrual, with the serial number repeated below. Denomination numerals 50 appear at each corner within decorative frames. |
| Reverse lettering | ПОЛОЖЕНІЕ О РАЗРЯДѢ (СЕРІИ) БИЛЕТОВЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТ ТРИНАДЦАТОГО ГОДА СЕРІЯ СДХХХVIII (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА ТРИДЦАТЬ ВОСЬМАЯ) |
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Russia's State Treasury notes of this period occupied an odd institutional position — technically obligations of the Treasury rather than the State Bank, though in practice the distinction mattered little to merchants or peasants. The 1913 date places this note in the final years of Romanov fiscal stability, before the First World War financing demands forced catastrophic money printing. Nicholas II's government was still operating under the gold standard framework established by Witte's 1897 reforms, and Treasury notes circulated at par with coin without difficulty.
Pick 51 is one of the more frequently encountered Imperial-era high-denomination notes in circulated grades, largely because the 1913 printing ran in substantial volume ahead of the war. Post-1917 survivors in genuinely uncirculated condition are another matter entirely.