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5000 Roubles
| Issuer | Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 5000 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | государственный кредитный билетъ пять тысячъ 5000 рублей 5000 кредитные билеты размѣниваются государствен- нымъ банкомъ на золотую монету безъ ограни- ченiя суммы и обезпечиваются всѣм достоянiемъ государства Управлѧющiй Кассиръ 1918 (Translation: State credit note Five thousand roubles Credit notes are exchanged by the state bank for gold coin without limitation of sum and are backed by government property Manager Cashier) |
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| Signature(s) | watermark horizontal lower - Afanasev watermark horizontal lower - Schmidt watermark horizontal lower - Baryshev watermark horizontal lower - Bubyakin watermark horizontal lower - Bylinskiy watermark horizontal lower - Gavrilov watermark horizontal lower - Metz watermark horizontal lower - Ovchinnikov watermark horizontal lower - Feduleyev watermark horizontal lower - Chikhirzhin watermark vertical lower - Gavrilov watermark vertical lower - Schmidt |
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The RSFSR's 5000-rouble notes of 1918 were produced at a moment when the Bolshevik government was printing currency at a pace driven by civil war finance rather than any pretense of monetary stability. Goznak — the old Imperial state printing works, retained almost intact by the new regime — continued using its established watermark authentication methods, which accounts for the unusually large number of distinct signatories embedded in the watermark field. These are not signatures in the conventional sense but rather the names of Goznak craftsmen or officials incorporated into the security paper itself, a practice inherited directly from Tsarist-era note production.
The dual orientation of watermark signatures — some horizontal, some vertical — reflects different paper batches or production runs within the same issue, and Gavrilov and Schmidt appear in both orientations, suggesting they oversaw work across multiple runs.