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10 Roubles Amur Region
| Issuer | Amur Regional Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | АМУРСКИЙ ОБЛАСТНОЙ РАЗМЕННЫЙ БИЛЕТ. ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 1918 г. |
| Reverse description | A double-headed eagle vignette is positioned at upper centre above a large open scroll bearing a handwritten-style Cyrillic text with the note's legal guarantee and signatures. The denomination numeral '10' and abbreviated 'РУБ.' appear at both left and right margins. An anti-counterfeiting legend runs along the lower border. |
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The Amur Regional Government was one of dozens of local authorities that issued emergency scrip following the Bolshevik seizure of power and the subsequent collapse of centralized banking across Siberia and the Russian Far East. This particular series emerged from a genuinely chaotic monetary environment: the Trans-Siberian Railway was contested, bullion reserves were inaccessible, and the ruble's credibility had disintegrated. Local authorities had little choice but to print their own obligations.
The Amur issues are among the more obscure Far Eastern provincials — fewer specialists have documented their precise print runs or redemption histories compared to the better-studied Omsk or Vladivostok emissions from the same period.