Russian state credit notes — imperial issues
Imperial paper rubles, including later gold-convertible and inconvertible issues; civil-war territorial acceptance varied.
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Russian state credit notes — imperial issues: Imperial paper rubles, including later gold-convertible and inconvertible issues; civil-war territorial acceptance varied.
Credit notes displaced assignations at 3.5 assignation rubles per credit ruble. Reform-period scope; not a claim that all silver coins were replaced.
Sections 2, 5 and 7: copper redemption and 1839–1843 reform
State credit notes used the silver-ruble unit and exchanged at face value.
Sections 2, 5 and 7: copper redemption and 1839–1843 reform
Witte’s reform made imperial credit notes exchangeable for gold.
From where the ruble went; Peter’s reform; Thaler rubles; Firm money; Witte’s reform
Source access and limitations
Museum synthesis.
Earliest mention is evidence of attestation, not a precise currency birth.
No single ingot-to-modern exchange factor inferred.
The State Bank stopped gold redemption after the war began.
1914, 1922–1924, 1947, 1992 and 1998 entries
The 1922 conversion also accepted earlier tsar-era paper money. Conversion in the reform’s jurisdiction; not uniform acceptance across every civil-war territory.
1914, 1922–1924, 1947, 1992 and 1998 entries