200 Roubles, USSR, 1991

This copy

Accession

OM-00190

Series year

1991

Actually issued

1991

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Folds, otherwise clean. 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 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

139.7 × 71.4 mm (±0.6, from the scan)

Themes

Late SovietCollapseLenin portrait

The type

Type

200 Roubles, USSR, 1991

Portrait

V. I. Lenin

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — what stands behind it

Билеты Государственного Банка обеспечиваются золотом, драгоценными металлами и прочими активами Государственного банка

State Bank notes are secured by gold, precious metals and the other assets of the State Bank

Symbology

Portrait of Lenin

The same three-quarter head, on the last Soviet series, printed as the union dissolved.

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.

Denomination in the union languages

Repeated once for each union republic, so the number of languages on a Soviet note records how many republics the union claimed at the time of printing.

What was happening

A Gosbank note of the very last Soviet series, printed as the union dissolved. The design is unchanged from the 1961 reform — Lenin, the state arms, the denomination in fifteen languages — but the money behind it was already failing. The Pavlov reform of January 1991 withdrew high denominations at two days' notice; by 1992 the rouble was in free fall and the USSR did not exist.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 200 Roubles, USSR, 1991 in the collection.