Imperial Government of Russia 3 1/2% 1894 Gold Bond (Uncanceled) Russian Bonds

125 Gold Roubles 3 1/2% Bond. The Russian ruble or rouble (Russian:?????

; code: RUB) is the official currency of the Russian Federation, and unofficially used in the two partially recognised republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and the two unrecognised republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. The ruble is subdivided into 100 kopeks (sometimes written as kopecks or copecks; Russian:???????? As of April 2019, the Russian ruble is the seventeenth most traded currency in the world, and a free-floating currency. In September 1993, the Soviet ruble (code: SUR) was replaced with the Russian ruble (code: RUR) at the rate 1 SUR = 1 RUR. In 1998, preceding the financial crisis, the Russian ruble was redenominated with the new code "RUB" and was exchanged at the rate of 1,000 RUR = 1 RUB.