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单词 paper rouble
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paper rouble
paper rouble n. see rouble n. 2.
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paper rouble
2. A paper money of less value (later of more value) than the silver rouble. More fully paper rouble. Now historical.The paper rouble was first introduced around 1770, as an assignat. During the second half of the 19th cent. the relative values of the paper and silver rouble fluctuated greatly, with the paper rouble eventually becoming inconvertible (inconvertible adj. 3). When Russia joined the gold standard in 1897 the difference between the two currencies was eradicated, although the rouble continued to be available primarily in paper form until 1924.
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chervonetz1923
1799 W. Tooke View Russ. Empire III. xii. vi. 679 Ten and five ruble notes were again made to the amount of 10 millions.
1800 tr. C. F. P. Masson Secret Mem. Court of Petersburg I. v. 276 Thirty thousand rubles in paper for a grand-duke of all the Russias.
1811 P. Kelly Universal Cambist I. 375 In 1808,..1 Silver Ruble was worth 2 Rubles of Exchange, or 2 of Bank Paper.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. ix. 273 100 Copecks = 1 Silver Rouble = 3s. 2d... Paper money is the chief medium of payment. The paper Rouble is worth about 2s. 6d. sterling.
1896 Trans. Actuarial Soc. Amer. 4 474 To-day the silver rouble is intrinsically worth less than 40 cents, while the paper rouble is worth more than 50 cents of our gold standard money.
1918 Mag. Wall St. 16 Mar. 852/2 The rouble depreciated very slowly, reaching low levels in 1866, 1877 (Russian-Turkish War) and 1887, in which year the old paper rouble reached its bottom price of 40 cents.
2005 T. C. Owen Dilemmas Russ. Capitalism p. xlv The credit, or ‘paper’, ruble..gradually lost so much of its value under the last four emperors that it was worth only 67 gold kopeks in 1897, when the imperial government placed the ruble on the gold standard.
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