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Original - Five hundred Imperial Russian rubles of 1912 (the nation's largest denomination until 1917), featuring Peter the Great upon contemporary engraved portrait by Jacobus Houbraken. Reason Ornate hi-res image and one of the finest Commons currencies imho. Articles in which this image appears Russian ruble Creator State Bank of the Russian ...
A new set of coins was issued in 1992 and a new set of banknotes was issued in the name of Bank of Russia in 1993. The currency replaced the Soviet ruble at par and was assigned the ISO 4217 code RUR and number 810. Apart from Russia, the Russian ruble was used in eleven post-Soviet states, forming a "ruble zone" between 1992 and 1993.
Pages in category "19th-century women from the Russian Empire" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Laureate woman symbolizing all woman characters in Němcová's books CZK 1000: František Palacký: Eagle spread its wings over the Archbishop's Castle in Kroměříž, where a constitution preparing parliament of Austrian Empire was held in 1848 CZK 2000: Emmy Destinn: Euterpe and musical motifs like violin CZK 5000: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The ruble or rouble (/ ˈ r uː b əl /; Russian: рубль, IPA:) is a currency unit. Currently, currencies named ruble in circulation include the Russian ruble (RUB, ₽) in Russia and the Belarusian ruble (BYN, Rbl) in Belarus. These currencies are subdivided into one hundred kopeks.
A specimen of a 1922 One Chervonets banknote. Hyperinflation in early Soviet Russia was ultimately halted by the adoption of such gold-backed currency.. Hyperinflation in early Soviet Russia connotes a seven-year period of uncontrollable spiraling inflation in the early Soviet Union, running from the earliest days of the Bolshevik Revolution in November 1917 to the reestablishment of the gold ...
Tsar of Russia and first Russian Emperor (1682–1725) 500 ₽ obverse 1995 Yaroslav I: 978–1054 Prince of Kiev and Novgorod (1019–1054) 1,000 ₽ obverse 2001 Lev Ivanovich Yashin: 1929–1990 Goalkeeper for Dynamo Moscow (1950–1970) and the Soviet Union national football team (1954–1967) 100 ₽ obverse 2018 (commemorative)
In Russia, from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century limited means of payment got rather widespread among private individuals - owners of commercial firms, shop owners, owners of profitable outlets at clubs. Sometimes the use of surrogate money resulted in a temporary shortage of state paper bills of small denominations and ...