10 000 Roubles, RSFSR, 1918

Государственный кредитный билетъ — Десять тысячъ рублей

Reverse of 10 000 Roubles, RSFSR, 1918 — Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession: OM-00043
Serial: БР 164903
Series year: 1918
Actually issued: 1918–1922
manager: G. L. Pyatakov (Г. Пятаковъ) certain
cashier: not read uncertain
Legible but not resolved to a name; compare against a signature chart.
Grade: F (IBNS)
Moderate wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
Estimated value: $3.5 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.
Dimensions: 214.3 × 131.5 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
Themes: Russian Civil War Hyperinflation Crownless eagle High denomination

The type

Type: 10 000 Roubles, RSFSR, 1918
Printer: Goznak, Petrograd and Moscow
Rarity: common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the backing

Обеспечивается всем достоянием Республики

Secured by the entire property of the Republic — no gold, no exchange undertaking, only the assets of the state

Reverse — the counterfeiting penalty

Подделка преследуется по закону

Counterfeiting is prosecuted by law

Symbology

Soviet arms: Hammer and sickle crossed over a globe in a wreath of wheat, with a rising sun behind - industry and agriculture, the world as the field of action, and the sunrise of a new order. It replaced the eagle entirely rather than editing it.
«Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!»: 'Workers of the world, unite!' - printed on money, and on the larger notes repeated in German, French, Italian, English, Arabic and Chinese. A currency addressed to people who would never hold it.
Guilloche: The dense interlaced line-work filling the field. Engine-turned on a geometric lathe, it was the era's principal anti-counterfeiting device: reproducible only with the same machine and impossible to draw freehand or photograph cleanly.

What was happening

Ten thousand roubles, still styled a State Credit Note and still signed by a Manager and a Cashier as though the imperial State Bank were running. The 1918 series began with a one-rouble note; within a year it needed this.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 10 000 Roubles, RSFSR, 1918 in the collection.

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