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10 Roubles Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1212 |
| Obverse description | Blue-grey credit note with an elaborate guilloche underprint framing the central text panel. Large ornate cartouches at left and right carry the denomination numeral '10', while the Cyrillic legend ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is set in bold letterpress across the centre. A lower cartouche bears the security pledge inscription ОБЕЗПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ, with two manuscript signatures flanking the panel beneath the titles УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ and КАССИРЪ. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ДАЛЬНЕ-ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 10 РУБЛЕЙ ОБЕЗПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ КАССИРЪ |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived Soviet buffer state established in April 1920 to avoid direct military confrontation between Soviet Russia and Japan in the region east of Lake Baikal. The arrangement was entirely political — Moscow needed a nominally independent democratic republic that Japan could tolerate, while retaining practical control. The FER issued its own currency as part of maintaining that fiction.
Pick S1212 belongs to the 1920 series issued under genuinely chaotic conditions, with multiple competing authorities, armed factions, and currencies all circulating simultaneously across the Russian Far East. The "S" prefix in the Pick catalogue places this firmly in the provisional and revolutionary category — not a product of any stable central banking infrastructure.
The republic itself dissolved in November 1922 when Japanese forces withdrew and the region was absorbed into Soviet Russia, rendering all FER currency immediately obsolete after barely two years in existence.