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10 Roubles Olonets Province
| Issuer | Olonets Provincial Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ОЛОНЕЦКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ 1918 ОБРАЗЕЦ |
| Reverse description | The back is printed in red-brown on a plain light ground, with the large numeral '10' and the word 'РУБЛЕЙ' set within an ornate rectangular frame of scrollwork and laurel-branch borders at left centre. To the right, a text block headed 'КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ОЛОНЕЦКОЙ ГУБЕРНИИ' contains a multi-line legal obligation and anti-counterfeiting warning in small Cyrillic type. The year '1918' appears in a decorative cartouche at upper centre, and the overprint 'ОБРАЗЕЦ' (Specimen) is struck diagonally across the left panel. |
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The Olonets Provincial Government was one of dozens of regional authorities that issued emergency scrip during the chaotic months following the Bolshevik seizure of power, when central currency supplies collapsed and local commerce ground to a halt. Olonets, a remote province in the Russian northwest bordering Finland, had neither the infrastructure nor the political stability to sustain a functioning monetary system independently — these notes were a stopgap, not a policy.
The series is scarce largely because the province's autonomy was short-lived. Soviet consolidation of the region came quickly, and most locally issued scrip was withdrawn or simply discarded.