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1 Kopek Latvia, Libava, Libau
| Issuer | Libau (Liepāja) City Municipality |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ЛИБАВСКОЕ ГОРОДСКОЕ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЕ РАЗМѢНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ. 1 Коп. 1 Сор. ПОДДѢЛКА КАРАЕТСЯ ПО УГОЛОВНЫМЪ ЗАКОНАМЪ. |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress impression on a beige cross-hatched guilloche underprint, essentially uniform in layout with the obverse. The issuer's name in ornate Cyrillic script spans the upper field within a scrollwork frame, numeral "1" at each upper corner. The central circular vignette repeats the heraldic lion of Libau rampant, here rendered with slightly finer line work. Denomination panels in bold reverse-white type read "1 Коп." at lower left and "1 Сор." at lower right, with the anti-counterfeiting warning centred below the vignette. |
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Libau — the heavily Germanized port city on the Baltic that would change hands repeatedly over the following decade — issued these emergency fractional notes in 1915 as Russian imperial small change evaporated from circulation almost immediately after mobilization began. Copper and silver were hoarded or melted; the municipality had little choice but to print its own scrip.
The 1 Kopek denomination is among the lowest-value emergency issues to survive from the entire Baltic theatre of the First World War. Notes at this face value were used heavily and discarded readily, making intact survivors genuinely uncommon.