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1 Rouble Revenue Stamp - Type 1
| Issuer | Chita Branch of the State Bank (Russia - Civil war issues) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧИТИНСКОЕ ОТДЕЛѢНИЕ Государственнаго Банка. Имѣетъ хожденіе наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами в предѣлахъ Забайкальской области. Гербовая марки 1 рубль 1 Читинское Отделение Государственного Банка (Translation: CHITA BRANCH OF THE STATE BANK. Valid for use in the Transbaikal region on a par with credit notes. Revenue Stamp 1 rouble 1 Chita Branch of the State Bank) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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The Chita branch operated under the authority of the Provisional Siberian Government and later the administration aligned with Ataman Semenov, making its emergency issues among the more politically tangled of the Far Eastern Civil War period. Conventional banking infrastructure had effectively collapsed east of the Urals by mid-1918, and branches improvised currency from whatever materials were at hand — in this case, revenue stamp blanks repurposed as rouble denominations.
Using fiscal paper as a monetary substrate was not unique to Chita, but the Type 1 designation signals that at least a second variant followed, implying the branch issued in sufficient volume or across enough distinct officializations to require cataloguers to distinguish between them.