Product Description
SCWPM.#269b - TBB.#B818bDate: 2001 - Grade: Unc - New UV features.
No sig. - at back 1997 and small vertical text at left on front "МОДИФИКАЦИЯ 2001"
Description: Colour: Blue, brown, red, orange, and green.
Front: Russian text; bank seal; female figure symbolizing the Neva River at foot of South rostral column on Birzhevaya Square in Saint Petersburg with Peter and Paul Fortress in background.
Back: Russian text; south rostral column and Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange building (now a naval museum).
1-mm wide solid security thread with printed ЦБР 50.
Watermark: Horizontal 50 (left); Peter and Paul Fortress (right).
Printer: (Goznak) - Size:150 x 65 mm. - Material: Paper
General information: 1997 - 2001 New Ruble Issues
With the exception of the new 1,000-ruble denomination, these notes are like the preceding issues.
On 1 January 1998, the ruble was redenominated at a rate of 1:1,000, thereby removing three zeros from all denominations, but doing nothing to address the fundamental economic problems afflicting the country at this time.
The currency was subsequently devalued in August 1998. The old 1,000-ruble denomination was replaced by a coin.
Source: The Banknotebook.
