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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 545321, member: 12789&quot;]The notes were printed by ABNco in 1918, some of them were delivered, but a large stock of them never made it there.&nbsp; For the central vignette the feminine subject was a stock image, imposed on a created background emblematic of Russia, with the double eagle shield.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/banknotes/russia/russiapriamur25dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left">It can be surmised that the background is supposed to be Sankt Peterburg/Petrograd/Leningrad.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/banknotes/russia/russiapriamur25.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left">The reverse of the note has the Russian eagle, and the State Duma below.&nbsp; At the time of the Russian revolution, the State Duma was the main power branch of government until the Bolsheviks took control of the whole country.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: left">The 100 ruble note is similar, but with a feminine vignette in the centre of the note that was used on many other nations banknotes, El Salvador, Ecuador notable amongst them.</p> <p style="text-align: left"><br /></p> </p> </p> </p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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