₽500 — Five Hundred Rubles
The artwork
Front: A pale green and rust-brown composition looking across the Moscow Kremlin: the columned Senate Palace with its flagstaff, the tented Spasskaya Tower rising behind, and a stand of firs in the foreground. The right two-thirds is given over to a heavy ornamental cartouche carrying "500" over "ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ", above a panel of microprinted denominations. Top left, the warning that forging Bank of Russia notes is punishable by law. Red serial with a Cyrillic two-letter prefix, Тч.
Back: "БАНК РОССИИ" runs along the top, with the interlaced Central Bank monogram in a scalloped rosette beneath it. At left, an octagonal frame holds the only colour on the note: a Kremlin wall tower and dome in violet, with two Russian tricolours flying against a blue sky and radiating sunburst. Large "500" and "ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ" at centre; the year 1993 printed small in blue at right.
In circulation
Part of the 1993 family issued after that summer's currency reform swept away the remaining Soviet-era paper. Inflation quickly made it small change: the 1995 series carried the burden at the top end, and the redenomination of 1 January 1998 retired these notes altogether, the name passing to the 1997 Arkhangelsk 500 roubles at a thousandth of the face.
Details
- IssuerБанк России (Bank of Russia)
- CurrencyRuble (₽)
- DenominationFive Hundred Rubles
- Collectedon the Russia journey, 1997
- Series1993
- SecurityMicroprinted denomination panel on the face; statutory counterfeiting warning printed top left