Types / 1991
200 Roubles, USSR, 1991
Билет Государственного Банка СССР — Двести рублей
common V. I. Lenin
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.
