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10 Roubles Control Stamp - Type 2
| Issuer | Chita Branch of the State Bank (City of Chita, Russia - Civil War issues) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a decorative border frame enclosing the central text field. A typographically printed paper control stamp bearing the denomination "10" is affixed to the note face alongside the issuing authority inscription. A circular ink cachet of the Chita Branch of the State Bank is applied over the note, serving as an official validation mark. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no text, vignette, or underprint of any kind. |
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Chita's State Bank branch began issuing provisional notes and control stamps in 1918 as the Siberian interior collapsed into competing administrations. This Type 2 control stamp belongs to a period when the branch operated under shifting authority — first nominally Soviet, then briefly under the oversight of the Transbaikal Cossack government of Grigory Semyonov, whose forces seized the city in August 1918. The distinction between "Type 1" and "Type 2" reflects sequential overprint or format changes made as printing resources and political control changed hands rapidly.
Semyonov's occupation of Chita is the key fact here. His administration, backed by Japanese forces, issued and validated local currency instruments throughout 1918–1920, creating a layered documentary record that makes attribution of individual stamps genuinely difficult without accompanying archival evidence.