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10 000 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Russian Provisional Government (Займъ Свободы / Liberty Loan) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ЗАЙМЪ СВОБОДЫ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ДУМА 5% ОБЛИГАЦІЯ ВЪ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНЫХЪ II серія Петроградъ, 27 марта 1917 года. |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse with text in a decorative frame, carrying the bond terms and conditions in Cyrillic script. |
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The Samara Directory notes occupy an oddly specific corner of Russian Civil War paper money. The "Займъ Свободы" — Liberty Loan — bonds were originally issued by the Provisional Government in 1917 as war financing instruments, not banknotes at all. When the Komuch government in Samara found itself starved of circulating currency after the Bolshevik takeover, it authorized these bond certificates to function as cash.
The result is legally peculiar: a debt instrument pressed into service as a medium of exchange by a regional authority that had no printing infrastructure of its own and was using paper already manufactured in Petrograd for an entirely different purpose.
Komuch itself collapsed by late 1918 when Kolchak's forces absorbed the region.