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10 Roubles Sakhalin

Issuer Sakhalin Regional People's Revolutionary Committee (Сахалинский Областной Народно-Революционный Комитет)
Year 1920
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Currency Rouble (1917-1924)
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Obverse description The denomination '10' appears in large bold numerals at the left, with the vertical text 'ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' alongside. The upper right portion bears the issuing authority's name in Cyrillic across three lines, followed by the legend 'КРАТКОСРОЧНЫЙ ВЫПУСК' (Short-term issue). Two handwritten signatures appear at the lower right, attributed to the Chairman of the Regional Revolutionary Committee and the Treasurer respectively, with a serial number stamped in the centre.
Obverse lettering САХАЛИНСКИЙ ОБЛАСТНОЙ НАРОДНО-РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫЙ КОМИТЕТ
КРАТКОСРОЧНЫЙ ВЫПУСК.
За Председателя Нарревкома
Казначей
ДЕСЯТЬ
10
РУБЛЕЙ
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The Sakhalin Regional People's Revolutionary Committee issued this note during the brief but chaotic period of Soviet consolidation on the island, when Japanese forces still occupied the southern half and Bolshevik authority in the north was more declarative than operational. Local emergency currencies of this type were printed with whatever materials were available — quality control was not a priority.

P#S1279 sits in one of the thinner categories of Russian Civil War provisional issues, with confirmed surviving examples genuinely scarce. The issuing body itself dissolved within a few years as administrative structures on the island were absorbed into the Soviet Far Eastern framework.

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