FIVE RUBLE NOTE

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

Detailed, ornate engraving on buff paper. On one face in blue ink with brown accents a large cartouche composed of leaf elements, the number "5" and the imperial eagle enclosing text. On the other face in brown, blue and green ink, the imperial eagle enclosed in ermine border with crown at top and crossed swords at bottom over cartouche enclosing text and the number "5" in each corner.

Object name:

FIVE RUBLE NOTE

Made from:

Paper

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

1909

Size:

6 1/8 × 3 7/8 in. (15.6 × 9.8 cm)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

55.81.2

Signature marks:

inscription 1909 / IB243067 / Federal / banknote / Five roubles / Federal Bank exchanges banknotes on gold currency in any quantity / (1rouble = 1/15 of imperial, contains 17,424 parts of pure gold). / Manager / Accountant translation from Russian inscription 1909 / IB243067 / Gosudarstvenyi / kreditnyi Bilet / Pyat' rublei / Gosudarstvenyi Bank kazmenivact / kredituye bilety na zolotyni monetu / Bez ogranicheuiya summy / (1 rubl' = 1/15 imperiala, soderzhit 17,424 dolei chistogo zolata). / Upravlyauschyi / Kassir Transliteration from Russian

Credit line:

Gift of Anne Odom, 1998