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1 Rouble Olonets Province
| Issuer | Olonets Province |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Large numeral '1' within an ornate cartouche at left, flanked by scrollwork and foliate vignettes. Date '1918' appears at upper centre within a decorative frame. Cyrillic text panel at right carries the note's title and redemption provisions, with a diagonal ОБРАЗЕЦ (specimen) overprint across the centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ОЛОНЕЦКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ ОБРАЗЕЦ 1 РУБЛЬ |
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Olonets Province was one of dozens of regional Russian authorities that began printing their own emergency notes after the Bolshevik seizure of power fractured the currency supply chain. The 1918 issues were a direct response to the near-total collapse of small-denomination ruble notes in circulation — commercial banks, cooperatives, municipalities, and provincial zemstvos all scrambled to fill the gap simultaneously, which is why the typographic quality of these provincial emissions varies so wildly.
Olonets, a sparsely populated territory bordering Finland, had neither the printing infrastructure nor the economic weight to sustain a meaningful local currency for long. The Soviet consolidation of the region put these notes out of use within months of issue.