RSFSR — State currency notes (1922)

The state currency notes of the 1922 pattern were the first money after the redenomination: the new rouble was set equal to 10,000 roubles of all earlier issues.

The basis was a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of 3 November 1921. The notes from 1 to 1,000 roubles came out on 26 November 1921, before the year printed on them, and the 5,000 and 10,000 roubles on 20 June 1922. All denominations were printed at the First Moscow Goznak factory on paper with a watermark of small six-pointed stars. The notes carry two signatures — of the People's Commissar of Finance N. Krestinsky and of a cashier set by the block number.

Specimens are known in two kinds: with a two-sided "ОБРАЗЕЦ" overprint, mirrored on the reverse, and as a pair of uniface notes with a perforation. The notes were withdrawn from circulation on 1 October 1923.