10 rubles — Russian Empire (1786–1818)

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Special facts

By the 1810s the assignat ruble had fallen to about a quarter of a silver ruble, so a ten-ruble note was worth about two and a half rubles in silver.

Appearance

Ten-rouble assignat of the second type. The front: at the top the number, below it two embossed ovals (a harbour with banners, guns, a double-headed eagle and the arc "ПОКОИТЪ И ОБОРОНЯЕТЪ" at left; a rock over the sea with "НЕВРЕДИМА" at right), between them the figure of the denomination and the text of the promise "ОБЪЯВИТЕЛЮ СЕЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ АССИГНАЦIИ ПЛАТИТЪ АССИГНАЦIОННЫЙ БАНКЪ … ХОДЯЧЕЮ МОНЕТОЮ". The back carries the inscription "Сов. пр. б." (Council of the Bank's Government) and a hand-written signature, different on each note. Embossed paper with watermarks of the arms of the kingdoms of Astrakhan, Kazan, Siberia and Moscow in the corners. Reddish paper, nicknamed "the red ones", a colour the ten-rouble notes kept for over two hundred years; the front is turned diagonally. Size 173 × 134 mm; dated every year from 1786 to 1818. Specimens of 1785 and 1786 without signatures are known.

About the period

The second-type assignats replaced the first-type notes, which were forged far too often. The design stayed almost the same, but the paper was now coloured, made at a special mill in Tsarskoye Selo. More about the period “Assignats”, 1786 — 1818

Other items of the period

• 5 rubles (1786–1818) Pick# A8
• 5 rubles (1802) — Unissued Pick# A13
• 10 rubles (1786–1818) Pick# A9
• 10 rubles (1802–1803) — Unissued Pick# A14
• 25 rubles (1785–1818) Pick# A10
• 25 rubles (1802) — Unissued Pick# A15
• 25 rubles (1803–1811) — Napoleonic forgery Pick# A10
• 50 rubles (1785–1818) Pick# A11
• 50 rubles (1805–1808) — Napoleonic forgery Pick# A11
• 100 rubles (1785–1818) Pick# A12
• 100 rubles (1802) — Unissued Pick# A16