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| Uitgever | Russian Provisional Government (Займъ Свободы / Liberty Loan) |
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| Jaar | 1917 |
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| Valuta | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Central vignette of the State Duma building in Moscow at upper centre, flanked by decorative foliate ornaments. Below the vignette, the bond text in Cyrillic reads '5% ОБЛИГАЦІЯ ВЪ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНЫХЪ' ('5% Bond for Ten Thousand Roubles Nominal'), followed by an extended patriotic appeal text. Serial number '№001461' appears twice at upper left and upper right, with series designation 'II серія' flanking the heading 'ЗАЙМЪ СВОБОДЫ' (Liberty Loan); multiple manuscript signatures and a printed date of 27 March 1917 appear at the lower portion. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | ЗАЙМЪ СВОБОДЫ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ДУМА 5% ОБЛИГАЦІЯ ВЪ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНЫХЪ II серія Петроградъ, 27 марта 1917 года. |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.