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1 Rouble Amur Railway
| Issuer | Main Food Committee of the Amur Railway (Главный Продовольственный Комитет Амурской железной дороги) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 100 × 73 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note is an advance coupon (авансовая карточка) issued in 1919 by the Main Food Committee of the Amur Railway, with the denomination НА ОДИН РУБЛЬ (One Rouble) and serial number printed in Cyrillic within a simple decorative border with ornamental corner motifs. The body of the note carries a text stating the bearer's right to receive goods from food committee stores to the value of one rouble. Three manuscript signatures of the Committee Chairman, Treasurer, and Accountant appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Авансовыя карточки Главным Продовольств. Комитетом и линейными Продкомами обмениваются на денежные знаки без всяких удержаний по предъявлении таковых на сумму не менее 100 рублей. |
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The Main Food Committee of the Amur Railway issued its own scrip during a period when the Russian Far East had fractured into overlapping administrative zones, each with competing military and civilian authorities. In 1919, the Amur Railway line was a strategically critical corridor — contested between Bolshevik forces, the White Army under Kolchak, and Allied intervention troops — and the railway's own food supply bureaucracy found it necessary to create local purchasing instruments rather than depend on any single recognized currency.
Railway committee scrip of this type circulated almost exclusively within the narrow economic orbit of the line itself: station markets, depot canteens, and labor settlements. Survival rates are low — most were redeemed, discarded, or simply disintegrated in harsh conditions before any collector interest developed.