5 rubles — USSR (1947)

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Watermark

Two-tone: stars in vertical columns.

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Special facts

The five-ruble note is the largest of the three treasury notes of the series; the next values, from 10 rubles, are State Bank notes with Lenin’s portrait.

Appearance

Black print over a light-orange and light-blue ground. The obverse has an ornamental frame and guilloché around the USSR state emblem at the top, a large value at the center, and below it the denomination in 16 languages of the union republics and the year. The reverse is in dark blue over a multicolor ground: a hammer and sickle at the center in an ornamental frame, with guilloché and the legal text above them and the value at the bottom and in the corners. The paper carries a watermark of stars arranged in columns. The note's own title reads "State Treasury Note", although it was issued by the State Bank of the USSR. No signatures. 143 × 88 mm. There are eight varieties: font I and font II, each with four ways of writing the series letters; two specimens with a red "ОБРАЗЕЦ" overprint (one also perforated) are known as well.

About the period

The banknotes of the 1947 currency reform are seven denominations from 1 to 100 roubles dated "1947". The reform exchanged old money for new at 10 to 1 and removed the surplus of money accumulated during the war. More about the period “1947 Monetary Reform”

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1947

Other items of the period

• 1 ruble (1947) Pick# 216
  16 republics
• 1 ruble (1947) Pick# 217
  15 republics
• 3 rubles (1947) Pick# 218
  16 republics
• 3 rubles (1947) Pick# 219
  15 republics
• 5 rubles (1947) Pick# 220
  16 republics
• 5 rubles (1947) Pick# 221
  15 republics
• 10 rubles (1947) Pick# 225
  16 republics
• 10 rubles (1947) Pick# 226
  15 republics
• 25 rubles (1947) Pick# 227
  16 republics
• 25 rubles (1947) Pick# 228
  15 republics
• 50 rubles (1947) Pick# 229
  16 republics
• 50 rubles (1947) Pick# 230
  15 republics
• 100 rubles (1947) Pick# 231
  16 republics
• 100 rubles (1947) Pick# 232
  15 republics