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10 Roubles Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red on a pink underprint, the note centres on a vignette of a bundle of wheat, pickaxe, and anchor, flanked by ornate guilloche cartouches bearing the denomination numeral '10' at left and right. The serial number appears in red above the central vignette, with the denomination in Cyrillic text across the middle register. A legal warning against counterfeiting is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on a pink underprint, the reverse is composed of a central text panel enclosed within elaborate guilloche borders, stating that the note is secured by all the wealth of the Republic. The denomination '10 РУБЛЕЙ' and its Cyrillic equivalent appear in the upper and lower registers. Signature lines for the authorizing cashier and issuing officer are printed at the lower left and right respectively, each accompanied by a handwritten signature. |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a deliberately constituted buffer state, proclaimed in April 1920 at Soviet instigation to forestall direct confrontation with Japan, whose forces still occupied parts of the Russian Far East. Moscow needed a nominally independent, nominally democratic government to manage the withdrawal — the FER was that fiction made administrative. Its paper money, issued in Chita, was part of making the state look functional.
The series circulated alongside a chaotic mix of Kolchak leftovers, Japanese military scrip, and Chinese currency. When the FER was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, its notes were declared worthless without a formal redemption program, leaving substantial quantities unredeemed.