500 rubles — RSFSR (1923)

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Special facts

The five-hundred-ruble note of 1923 equalled fifty thousand rubles of 1922.

Series, cashiers and specimens

The series are ВА-7001..7100 and ЕА-7101..7189. The last digit of the block number sets the cashier: nine of the issue's ten cashiers signed this denomination, with digit "2" and the cashier Porokhov both missing from the pattern. Besides ordinary notes, a proof with the obverse printed but no reverse is known.

Appearance

Both sides are brown, on a multicolour ground (green, yellow, pink on the obverse; green, yellow, violet, pink on the reverse): a guilloché pattern with the value «500» and the word «РУБЛЕЙ», a large RSFSR coat of arms in the background, a serial number printed twice, the year «1923», and the signatures of the People's Commissar of Finance and a cashier. The reverse has an ornamental frame and the value in the corners, the text set in eight lines. The note measures about 154 × 106 mm.

About the period

The state currency notes of 1923 were the second and last sovznak issue. One rouble of 1923 equalled 100 roubles of the 1922 pattern. More about the period “State currency notes”, 1923

Coins and banknotes of this year: 1923

Specifications

Period

State currency notes

Face value

500 rubles: all issues

Currency

1 ruble = 100 kopecks

Issue type

Circulation

Material

Paper

Size

154 × 106 mm

Issuer

Goznak

Dominant color

brown

Watermark

Yes

Variants

People's Commissar of Finance of the RSFSR / USSR: Sokolnikov G.Y.

Year	Series	Cashier	Signature	Print run	Price	Details
1923	—	—		—	Estimate	specimen Proof, printed obverse only	+ ☆
specimen Proof, printed obverse only
1923	—	—		—	Estimate	specimen Perforated "ОБРАЗЕЦ"	+ ☆
specimen Perforated "ОБРАЗЕЦ"
1923	—	—		—	Estimate	specimen Red overprint "ОБРАЗЕЦ"	+ ☆
specimen Red overprint "ОБРАЗЕЦ"
1923	—	Onikov L.I.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 0	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 0
1923	—	Selyavo A.A.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 1	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 1
1923	—	Kolosov I.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 3	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 3
1923	—	Loshkin N.K.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 4	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 4
1923	—	Beliayev A.N.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 5	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 5
1923	—	Dyukov F.Y.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 6	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 6
1923	—	Silayev A.P.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 7	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 7
1923	—	Kozlov M.M.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 8	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 8
1923	—	Sapunov A.A.		—	≈ $36	Blocks ending in 9	+ ☆
Blocks ending in 9