Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 000 Roubles Government of The North Region
| Issuer | Government of the Northern Region (Archangel) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Рос. 10000 Срок 15 Февраля 1919 5% Краткосрочное обязательство Временного Правительства Северной Области Предъявителю сего обязательства 15 Февраля 1919 года АСАТЬ ТЫСЯЧЬ рублей в Архангельском Отделении Государственного Банка Председатель Временного Правительства Северной Области Управляющий Отделением Финансов Архангельск, 15 Августа 1918 г. Bon du Trésor de DIX MILLE roubles Remboursable le 15 Février 1919 TEN THOUSAND ROUBLES |
| Reverse description | The reverse is largely unprinted, showing only a faint ghosting of the obverse text visible through the thin paper stock, with a small ornate guilloche cartouche at the right edge and residual pale underprint text across the field, consistent with the single-sided production typical of emergency Civil War-era Russian bond issues. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Government of the Northern Region was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik administration established in Archangel in August 1918 under the protection of Allied intervention forces — British, French, American, and others who had landed in the White Sea ports that summer. Currency had to be produced locally and quickly, which is why this note was printed in Archangel itself rather than sourced from established security printers. The results were predictably crude by the standards of the era.
The regime collapsed in early 1920 when Allied troops withdrew and Bolshevik forces moved in. Notes of this series almost certainly circulated alongside Allied military scrip, British currency, and older Imperial Russian paper during the occupation period — an unusually tangled monetary environment for what was essentially a remote northern port city.