Interesting facts about the currency of Russia and details about the features of the bill of five hundred rubles
Why exactly "ruble"?
The current currency of Russia is the ruble. Numerous versions agree that the verb "hack" is a single root for the word "ruble". There is also an exotic version, claiming that the "ruble" has one root with the ancient Indian word "rupee" and means "processed silver." For the first time as a monetary unit "ruble" is mentioned in the letters of Veliky Novgorod. During the reign of Dmitry Donskoy began his own coinage in Moscow. At the beginning of the monetary reform, 1 Moscow ruble equaled 100 Novgorod money or 200 Moscow money, which were called kopecks. At present, the price of the ruble is equal to one hundred kopecks.
When the first ruble and other interesting facts about the Russian currency were minted
- In 1654 the first coin was mintedworth 1 ruble, which was in circulation for not more than a year. The chasing of ruble coins resumed under Peter the Great, since then it has not ceased to this day.
- In addition to the emblem, the money of tsarist Russia depicted Russian emperors: Alexander II, Catherine the Great, Peter I.
- It is interesting that Ivan Ivanovich Dubasov developedThe design of the first Soviet ruble, which was issued in 1919. On the front side of banknotes until 1992, there was an image of Lenin, who changed the look of the stylized Moscow Kremlin.
- Due to the fact that foreign currency is widely used in the domestic circulation of modern Russia, the rubles needed an officially approved symbol.
- Monuments of 1 ruble coins are installed in Tomsk and Dimitrovgrad.
- In the game "Pokemon" currency pokedollar is also designated as a ruble.
All about the bill of five hundred rubles: design
Various issues of a 500 ruble note
There are several modifications and releasesbanknotes worth five hundred rubles. Currently, there are 4 types of such notes in circulation: the 1997 sample, and the same sample, but the modifications of 2001, 2004 and 2011. All four types are accepted for payments throughout the territory of Russia. Since this note is the most expensive, the Bank of Russia constantly raises the level of money protection, introduces more modified options into circulation. A five-hundred-ruble-denominated banknote in 2010 is considered the most secure banknote. The prevailing color of the bill is violet-blue, the size is 150x65 mm. Two colored and gray fibers, fine relief strokes, protective threads and watermarks were introduced into the paper. When the reverse and the front sides are combined, their fragments coincide, forming an integral pattern. The figures of the serial number of the banknote of five hundred rubles of modification of 2010 from left to right gradually increase, on the reverse side the image has changed, some of whose elements have magnetic properties.