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10 Roubles Far Eastern Soviet of the Peoples Commissars
| Issuer | Far Eastern Soviet of the People's Commissars |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a globe ringed by a wreath of foliage, with a ribbon banner inscribed ДАЛЬНИЙ ВОСТОК (Far East) across its face. The denomination ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ (Ten Roubles) is printed in large Cyrillic text above the globe, with the value numeral 10 repeated in each corner flanked by vertical serial number panels. Three facsimile signatures appear below the central vignette, with an anti-counterfeiting legend along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a composite allegorical vignette with a standing male worker at right and a farmer at left, symbolising labour and agriculture. A steam locomotive and a ship appear along the lower register, while a factory complex occupies the centre-left and a cultivated crop field the centre-right, together representing the industrial and agricultural resources of the Far Eastern region. |
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The Far Eastern Soviet of the People's Commissars was one of dozens of regional revolutionary bodies that issued their own paper currency during the chaotic civil war period following 1917, when central Bolshevik monetary authority simply could not reach the periphery. The Russian Far East was particularly volatile — Japanese interventionist forces landed at Vladivostok in April 1918, and the region would remain a contested military zone for years.
Notes from this issuer are genuinely scarce. The administrative body that produced them had a short operational lifespan before being absorbed, displaced, or destroyed by White Army advances and foreign intervention.