200 Roubles, 4½% State Internal Loan, 1917

This copy

Accession

OM-00228

Serial

9540 96

Series year

1917

Actually issued

1917

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Folds, sound; issued with its coupon sheet. 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

$9 indicative

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

Dimensions

not measured

The type

Type

200 Roubles, 4½% State Internal Loan, 1917

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the terms

Заемъ сей внесенъ въ Государственную Долговую Книгу

This loan is entered in the State Debt Register

Symbology

Allegorical vignette

Classical figures around the loan's title, engraved to the standard of a banknote because it was meant to be trusted like one.

Coupon sheet

Twenty numbered interest coupons, clipped and spent individually. During the Civil War the coupons circulated as currency in their own right.

What was happening

The Provisional Government's 'Liberty Loan', authorised 11 August 1917 - an attempt to fund the state by borrowing from its own citizens ten weeks before it ceased to exist. The bonds were repudiated by the Soviet government in 1918 along with all imperial and Provisional debt.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 200 Roubles, 4½% State Internal Loan, 1917 in the collection.