10 Roubles, Banknotes of 1997 of modification of 2001

Image of the face

Image of the back

Issuing authority: Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia)
Year on the banknote: 1997
In circulation since: 2001
Substrate:

Has a light yellow shade, two localized watermarks, thread with text; has red, light green, and violet fibers

Dimensions: 150mm × 65mm

Intaglio: Face: main motif; horizontal ornamental stripe; Bank of Russia emblem (graphicless area on the left); 10" (upper left); feature for the visually impaired (lower graphicless area on the left); all inscriptions; Back: main motif; "ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ"; "10" (graphicless areas on the left and right); horizontal lines of microprinting at the bottom Offset: Face: background pattern; vertical ornamental stripe with the Orloff effect; silver "10" (graphicless area in the bottom left); gray rosette with "10" (graphicless area on the right bottom); Back: background pattern with a split duct effect; vertical ornamental stripe; micropattern in the graphicless areas; year of issue "1997" (bottom right). Letterpress: Face: serial numbers with two letters (red on the left; dark green on the right

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1 Watermark

Localized (broad graphicless area) halftone chapel in a shaded rectangle repeating the image on the face

View under UV light

Face

Paper: Over the entire surface, red and light green fibers have red and green luminescence; individual fragments of the thread have green luminescence under UV light Graphic elements: Face: left and right parts of the gray rosette in the broad graphicless area have low intensity pink luminescence; Back: fragments of the vertical ornament printed with green inks have green luminescence Face: silver inks (in the left lower corner) used to print the face value has yellow and green luminescence


View under IR light

Face

Face: intaglio images were printed with metameric inks, one of which absorbs IR light and the other does not. Under IR light, only a part of these images is visible


Magnetic protection

Dark green ink used to print the serial number on the right has magnetic properties

Banknotes of the series issued in 1997 have the same design (Cities of Russia series) and a single array of security features including a watermark, a windowed security thread, and a latent image (Kipp effect). The modification of 2004 has the Moire Variable Color (MVC) on the face of banknotes. Banknotes of higher denominations (500–5,000 rоubles)
have additional microperf and OVI. The 5,000-ruble banknote issued in 2006 has a new element in addition to these, which is authenticated with a polarizing filter. 500 Rubles of the modification of 2010 has MVC Chameleon, and 1,000 Rubles of the modification of 2010 has a thread VFI, SPARK® and MVC+. The 5,000-Rouble banknote issued in 2011 has SPARK®, MVC+, and security thread “Mobile”.

All banknotes of the series