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100-Ruble Banknote
100-Ruble Banknote
The 100-Ruble banknote is designed
on the basis of the Bank of Russia 100,000-Ruble banknote of
the 1995 issue. It is a 150 mm by 65 mm piece of
pink-coloured paper, containing violet, red and
light-green fibres. The predominant colour of the
banknote is brown-green. The paper has local watermarks
in the left-hand and right-hand coupon fields. In the
wide coupon field is the building of the Bolshoi Theatre
in Moscow and in the narrow coupon filed is the figure
100. A vertical security thread, which becomes visible
when the note is held to the light, carries the recurrent, direct and reverse motto " ", printed in
black.
In the upper part of the obverse
side of the banknote is the Bank of Russia logo and the
figure 100, printed with a brown paint, and the embossed
inscription " "
(Bank of
Russia Note). In the centre is an engraved sculptural
group (quadriga) on the portico of the Bolshoi Theatre
building in Moscow. Below is the figure 100, printed with
a silvery paint, the inscription "Counterfeiting
Bank of Russia Notes Is an Indictable Crime",
embossed signs for people with poor sight, a stylised
ribbon and the denomination in words " "
(One Hundred Rubles). The ribbon
contains the Cyrillic letters PP, which become visible
when the note is scrutinised under the oblique incident
light (kipp-effect). In the lower part of the right-hand
coupon field is an ornamental grey-coloured rosette with
the light-coloured figure 100 to the left and to the
right and another figure 100, printed with a dark-orange paint, in the
centre. In the left part of the note is a
vertical multi-coloured ornamental band. In the centre of
the narrow left-hand coupon field are the code and serial
number of the banknote, printed in a red-brown colour,
and in the upper part of the wide right-hand coupon field
are the code and serial number, printed in dark-green.
The code consists of two letters and the serial number is
composed of seven digits.
In the upper left-hand and
right-hand corners of the reverse side of the banknote
are the figures 100 in patterned rosettes and between
them are microprinted red-brown horizontal lines made of
the figure 100. In the centre is an engraved picture of
the Bolshoi Theatre building in Moscow. Under the
engraving is a decorative shield bearing the inscription
"Moskva", five red-brown double horizontal
lines with the recurrent light-coloured microprinted
motto "" and a large
red-brown figure 100. Underneath to the left is the
denomination in words ""
(One Hundred Rubles) and to the right is the issue year
1997, printed in green. On the right in the central part
is a vertical ornamental band, containing rhombs, whose
untinged triangular elements are filled with light blue
colour when the note is held to the light.
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