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Russia banknotes
Russia paper money catalog and Russian currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Gold Ruble = 10 Silver Ruble = 1.000 Kopeks, till 1843
  • Ruble = 100 Kopeks, 1843-1922
  • Ruble = (10.000 old Rubles) = 100 Kopeks, 1922-1923
  • Ruble = (100 old Rubles) = 100 Kopeks, 1923-1924
  • Chervonetz = 10 Gold Ruble = (500.000 old Rubles) = 1.000 Kopeks, 1924-1947
  • Ruble = (10 old Rubles) = 100 Kopeks, 1948-1961
  • Ruble = (10 old Rubles) = 100 Kopeks, 1961-1998
  • Ruble = (1.000 old Rubles) = 100 Kopeks, from 1998

• For Russian regional and local issues 1914-1925 see:
  • North Russia
  • West Russia (including Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and West Russia)
  • Ukraine and Crimea
  • South Russia
  • North Caucasus
  • Transcaucasia (included Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia)
  • Siberia and Ural
  • Russian Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
  • East Siberia
  
  
• For Russian Mining Company notes issued in Spitsbergen see:
  • Spitsbergen
• For Russian issued currency for occupied countries by Red Army during and after the World War II see:
  • Russian occupation notes, 1944-1948
  
  
• For Imperial Russia issues for occupied countries see:
  • Finland, 1809-1918
  • Poland, 1824-1866
• For issues of independent countries after collapse of Imperial Russia see:
  • Armenia, 1918-1920
  • Azerbaijan, 1918-1920
  • Estonia, 1918-1940
  • Finland, from 1918
  • Georgia, 1918-1920
  • Latvia, 1918-1940
  • Lithuania, 1918-1940
  • Poland, from1918
  • Ukraine, 1918-1920
  • Uzbekistan; Bukhara and Khiva, 1918-1920
• For issues of independent countries after collapse of Soviet Union see:
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Estonia
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Moldova
    • Transdniestria
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan

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Pick #	Date
		Tsarist Empire
A1-4	1769-73	25, 50, 75, 100 rubles
A5-7	1774-84	25, 50, 100 rubles
A8-12	1785-1818	5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
A13-6	1802-3	5, 10, 25, 100 rubles
A17-24	1818-43	5, 10, 20, 20, 25, 50, 100, 200 rubles
A25-30	1840-1	3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
A31-2	1841	50, 50 rubles
A33-40	1843-65	1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 25, 50, 100 rubles
A41-7	1866-80	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
A48-53	1882-94	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 100 rubles
A54-60A	1866-80	1, 3, 5, 10, 10, 25, 25, 25 rubles
A61-64	1895-6	1, 3, 5, 100 rubles
1-6	1898	1, 3, 5, 10, 100, 500 rubles
7-8	1899	25, 50 rubles
9-14	1905-12	3, 5, 10, 25, 100, 500 rubles
15	1898(1915)	1 ruble (as P1 but block#)
16-23	(1916)	1, 2, 3, 10, 15, 20 kopeks (stamp currency)
24-31	(1915)	1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 50 kopeks
		Provisional Government 1917
32-34	(1917)	1, 2, 3 kopeks (stamp currency)
35-37	1917	5 (as P10 but block#), 250, 1.000 rubles
38-40	1918	25, 100 rubles
41-42	(1917)	20, 40 rubles (so-called "Kierynki")
43-47	(1917)	25, 50, 100, 500 rubles (State Treasury Note)
48-60	1912-16	25, 50, 100, 500 rubles (4% State Treasury Note)
61-76	1916-17	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 25.000, 50.000, 100.000, 500.000, 1.000.000 rubles ( 5% Short Term Treasury Obligation)
77-80E	(1917)	20, 40, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 25.000 rubles ( 5% "Freedom" Bond)
		Soviet Union
81-85	(1919-21)	1, 2, 3, 3, 5 rubles
86-97	1918	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 rubles
98-106	1919	15, 30, 60, 100, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 rubles (so-called "Babylonian")
107-117	1921	50, 100, 100, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 25.000, 50.000, 100.000 rubles
120-22	1921	1.000.000, 5.000.000, 10.000.000 rubles (Short Term Treasury Certificate)
123-25	1922	5.000, 10.000, 25.000 rubles (Short Term Treasury Certificate)
126-38	1922	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 rubles
139-145	1922	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 chervontsev
146-51	1922	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50 rubles
155-62	1923	50 kopeks, 1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250 rubles
163-71	1923	1, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 rubles
172-75	1923	100, 250, 500, 1.000 rubles (N.K.F. Payment Obligations)
176-180	1924	3, 5 rubles (Transport Certificates)
181-83	1923	10.000, 15.000, 25.000 rubles
184-85A	(1923)	100, 250, 500, 1.000 rubles (N.K.F. Payment Obligations) unissued
185B-85E	1928	100, 250, 500, 1.000 rubles (N.K.F. Payment Obligations) unissued
186-88	1924	1, 3, 5 gold rubles
189-90	1925	3, 5 gold rubles
191-96	1924	1, 2, 3, 5, 20, 50 kopeks
196A-97A	1924	1, 3, 5chervontsev
197-200	1926-28	1, 2, 5 chervontsev
201	1932	3 chervontsev
202-05	1937	1, 2, 5, 10 chervontsev
206	1928	1 gold Rubel (as P186 but date 1928)
207-12	1934	1, 3, 5 gold rubles
213-15	1938	1, 3, 5 rubles
216-21; 225-32	1947	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
222-24; 233-36	1961	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 rubles
237-46	1991	1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 100, 200, 500, 1.000 rubles
		Russia
247-253	1992	50, 200, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 10.000(Privatization Check) rubles
254-60	1993-94	100, 200, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000 rubles
261-66	1995	1.000, 5.000, 10.000, 50.000, 100.000, 500.000 rubles
267-74	1997-	5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 rubles
274	2014	100 rubles; commerative issue "Sochi Olimpiade"
275	2015	100 rubles; commerative issue "Crimea Annexation" serie "KS"(Crimea-Sevastopol) ; serie "SK"(Sevastopol-Crimea)
276-7	2017	200, 2.000 rubles
280	2018	100 rubles; commerative issue "Soccer World Cup"

		VNESHPOSYLTORG Foreign Exchange Certificates
FX11-23	1965-8	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 rubles
FX24-29I	1972	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 rubles
FX30-43	1965-8	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 rubles
FX45-58	1965-72	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250 rubles
FX60-74	1976	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500 rubles
		GOSBANK Foreign Exchange Certificates
FX80-85	1961	1, 2, 5, 10, 50 kopek, 1 ruble
FX90-93	1967-74	1, 2, 5, 10 kopek
FX95-8	1976	1, 2, 5, 10 kopek
		VNESHTORGBANK Foreign Exchange Certificates
FX100-5	1973-75	1, 2, 5, 10, 50 kopek, 1 ruble
FX120-24	1978	5, 10, 50 kopek, 1, 5 ruble
		VNESHTORGBANK cruise ship notes
FX135-40	1977	1, 2, 5, 10, 50 kopek, 1 ruble
FX141-45	1977	5, 10, 50 kopek, 1, 5 rubles
		VNESHTORGBANK (diplomatic serie)
FX146-56	1965-85	1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 kopek, 1, 2, 5, 10, 25 rubles
		VNESHECONOMOBANK Foreign Exchange Certificates
FX157-63	1989	5, 10, 50 kopek, 1, 5, 10, 25 rubles
		VNESHTORGBANK Military Issue (Afghanistan War)
M10-24	1976	1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50 kopek, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 250, 500 rubles