₽100 — One Hundred Rubles
The artwork
Front: Across the left half, a framed vignette of a Kremlin tower with the Russian tricolour flying above the dome of the Senate Palace — the flag reinstated as the state flag only two years before this date. The rest of the field is given over to a vast shaded "100" with "СТО РУБЛЕЙ" beneath it, "БАНК РОССИИ" above, an ornate interlaced monogram top right and "1993" in a rosette.
Back: The classic Moscow Kremlin panorama seen from Red Square, set in a scalloped cartouche: the Senate Palace with its green dome and colonnade at the left, the wall and its towers running right to the tented Spasskaya Tower with its star and clock. "СТО РУБЛЕЙ" sits on a guilloche band below, flanked by shadowed 100s, with the red serial Ис 1117902 at the left.
In circulation
Part of the first properly Russian series, issued in 1993 to replace the last Soviet-style rouble notes. Inflation quickly overtook it: higher values up to 50,000 roubles followed within two years, and the whole family was retired by the 1998 redenomination, when one new rouble bought a thousand of these.
Details
- IssuerБанк России (Bank of Russia)
- CurrencyRuble (₽)
- DenominationOne Hundred Rubles
- Collectedon the Russia journey, 1997
- Series1993 issue, dated 1993 on the face
- SecurityPrinted warning on the back: counterfeiting Bank of Russia notes is prosecuted by law