100 rubles — USSR (1991)

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Watermark

Five-pointed stars, dark and light.

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Special facts

The second issue of the hundred-ruble note entered circulation in an already independent Russia, a little over two months after the USSR ceased to exist.

Appearance

The design of the first issue (a portrait of Lenin, the USSR coat of arms), but with new elements added on the white fields, and a colored overprint of the value "100" at the right of the obverse and the left of the reverse (on the obverse also the year "1991"). The reverse shows the wall of the Moscow Kremlin with the Beklemishevskaya (Moskvoretskaya) Tower and the Kremlin buildings and cathedrals behind it; the value in the languages of the union republics is gone. The paper carries a watermark of dark and light five-pointed stars instead of the portrait of Lenin. The note reads "Note of the State Bank of the USSR". 140 × 70 mm.

Issue history

The second issue of the 1991 hundred-ruble note: it is dated 1991 but entered circulation on 4 March 1992, after the first issue (Pick 242). The series run ИЭ–МЬ; two ways of printing the reverse are known — intaglio and offset. Notes of this series were withdrawn on 26 July 1993.

About the period

The transitional Gosbank issue of 1991–1992 was the last Soviet money. It appeared with the "Pavlov" reform and circulated in independent Russia until it was replaced by Bank of Russia money. More about the period “Gosbank transitional issue”, 1991 — 1992

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1991

Other items of the period

• 10 kopecks (1991) Y# 296
• 50 kopecks (1991) Y# 292
• 1 ruble (1991) Pick# 237
• 1 ruble (1991) Y# 293
• 3 rubles (1991) Pick# 238
• 5 rubles (1991) Pick# 239
• 5 rubles (1991) Y# 294
• 10 rubles (1991) Pick# 240
• 10 rubles (1991–1992) Y# 295
• 50 rubles (1991) Pick# 241
• 50 rubles (1992) Pick# 247
• 100 rubles (1991) Pick# 242
• 100 rubles (1991) Pick# 243
• 200 rubles (1991) Pick# 244
• 200 rubles (1992) Pick# 248
• 500 rubles (1991) Pick# 245
• 500 rubles (1992) Pick# 249
• 1000 rubles (1991) Pick# 246
• 1000 rubles (1992) Pick# 250