Creating a collection of banknote combinations. It's beautiful and expensive!
Collecting banknote combinations over a long period is practically impossible! Money is earned and spent, not tucked under a pillow!
Wads of banknotes are usually offered at auctions, but that's not a collection, and I doubt their authenticity.
There's a biased opinion about Russian currency in the West. But there are many times more dollars and euros in circulation than rubles.
Cash in Russia accounts for only 20% of monetary transactions.
In 1997, a redenomination was carried out. A 1,000-ruble banknote is equivalent to 1,000,000 non-denominated rubles.
I doubt anyone in Russia has ever put a banknote worth a month's salary in a book and forgotten about it. Only 8% of the population had cash savings in 1997. Wealthy people kept their money in banks or in cash US dollars.
The 1000-ruble banknotes of 1997 (without the modification) and the 1000-ruble banknote of 1997 (the 2004 modification) are currently withdrawn from circulation. Most of these banknotes were destroyed due to wear and tear. Few were issued. For a long time, non-denominated banknotes (that is, banknotes with the "000" mark) circulated in parallel. Non-denominated banknotes constituted the majority of the money supply.
The 1997 and 2004 banknotes can be considered trial banknotes.
Genuine examples are expensive and virtually unheard of.
When it became clear that these banknotes were of interest to collectors, a large number of counterfeits appeared, selling cheaply at auction.
This creates the illusion among amateurs that these banknotes are not rare.
In the West, Russian currency is poorly understood. Few people collect them.
This is due to the biased and dismissive attitude toward Russia in the West.
This image is reinforced by the behavior of Russian businessmen who permanently reside in the West and hold multiple citizenships.
