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10 Roubles Krasnoyarsk Territory
| Issuer | Krasnoyarsk Yenisei Provincial Mutual Credit Society |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Pink and red note printed in letterpress with black text overlay. The heading reads «РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЧЕКЪ» in ornate Gothic-style lettering at top center, below which the denomination «ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ» appears in a bold rectangular panel. The central area carries the large numeral «10» as a guilloche underprint, flanked by the issuing authority text and lines for board member signatures and cashier, with series letter and serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly printed in rose-red, the reverse is dominated by a central guilloche medallion bearing the year «1919», surrounded by an elaborate floral and foliate vignette with large decorative Cyrillic initials «О» and «К» to either side. The top and bottom borders carry the full issuer name in capital letters, while the left and right margins repeat it vertically. A text panel in the upper right contains the guarantee clause warning against counterfeiting. |
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The Krasnoyarsk Yenisei Provincial Mutual Credit Society was one of dozens of cooperative credit institutions that resorted to issuing their own scrip during the profound instability of the Russian Civil War period. In 1919, Kolchak's White government nominally controlled the region, but the financial system had fractured badly enough that local cooperative societies were filling the gap with paper obligations of their own — these were instruments of necessity, not banking ambition.
Mutual credit society notes from Siberia in this period are frequently found with heavy handling wear; they circulated hard in conditions where Romanov-era coinage had largely vanished from daily trade.