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Foreign => World Bank Notes => Topic started by: downeast on April 23, 2006, 03:33:56 pm

Title: 1919 European Banknote Identification
Post by: downeast on April 23, 2006, 03:33:56 pm

From a small group of European currency mostly German inflationary was this note which had been neatly folded with and interestingly low serial #. Can anyone turn the lights on for me as I haven't a clue.  

Title: Re: 1919 European Banknote Identification
Post by: Philippe_B on April 23, 2006, 04:05:58 pm

I think this is a note from Russia because it's not written in German.

Title: Re: 1919 European Banknote Identification
Post by: Seth on April 24, 2006, 07:36:22 pm

I know enough of the Cyrillic alphabet to read the word "rubles" after the "1000", so that would probably indicate Russia.  Russia is, AFAIK, the only country that uses rubles today out of about a dozen countries that use the Cyrillic alphabet.  I don't know if other countries may have used rubles in 1919, though.

If you can post a closer-up scan of the text I might be able to decipher some of it.  It's too small to read with this scan.

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Edit:  Belarus and the self-declared independent republic of Transdniestr (actually a part of Moldova) use rubles today in addition to Russia.

Anyway, your note is a Russian note; it is catalogued on this page as P-S418b:
http://aes.iupui.edu/rwise/countries/russia_specialized.html

This British site is offering the same catalogue number for GBP 3.00 for EF/AU:
http://katespapermoney.co.uk/item.asp?ID=2411

Title: Re: 1919 European Banknote Identification
Post by: hanmer on May 03, 2006, 04:23:47 pm

While the mystery is solved, there is somethig else that I noticed about this note that immediately indicated Russian to me. The two headed eagle is the symbol of the Russian monarchy.

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