Product Description
B816b (P267b): 5 рублей (rubles)Date: 1997 - re-issue (2022) with lacquer coating for increased durability serial # prefix beginning with Ч - Grade: Unc - No signature
Description: Colour: Green, pink, and brown. Front: Russian text; bank seal; Millennium of Russia monument in Novgorod Kremlin; Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod.
Back: Russian text; Dvortsovaya (Palace Tower), Spasskaya (Saviour’s Tower), and Knyazhaya (Princess
Tower) on the Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets) wall with Volkhov River in background.
1-mm wide solid security thread with printed ЦБР 5.
Watermark: Horizontal 5 (left); Saint Sophia Cathedral (right).
Printer: (Goznak). - Size: 137 x 61 mm.
Material: paper.
More info about these series: 1997 - 2001 New Ruble Issues
With the exception of the new 1,000-ruble denomination, these notes are like the preceding issues.
On 1 January 1998, the ruble was redenominated at a rate of 1:1,000, thereby removing three
zeros from all denominations, but doing nothing to address the fundamental economic problems afflicting the country at this time.
The currency was subsequently devalued in August 1998. The old 1,000-ruble denomination was replaced by a coin.
