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10 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semireche Region State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Regional arms vignette at upper centre, flanked by decorative floral scrollwork underprint in pale red. The denomination '10' appears at upper left and upper right corners, with the Cyrillic legends 'КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ' and 'ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' printed in bold letterpress. To the left margin, vertical inscriptions indicate the military commissar and provincial commissar titles, with two facsimile signatures of bank officials appearing at the right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 РУБ РУБ ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 1918 |
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The Semirech'e (Seven Rivers) region of what is now southeastern Kazakhstan was one of dozens of peripheral territories forced to print its own emergency currency after the Bolshevik seizure of central banking infrastructure severed normal note supply routes. The Semirech'e Oblast State Bank issued this note in 1918 during a period of acute civil war fragmentation, when White, Red, and locally autonomous forces each controlled different corridors of the region at different times.
Provincial notes of this type were frequently counterfeited, refused by merchants, and repudiated within months of issue. Surviving examples are scarcer than their apparent obscurity suggests — most were destroyed or discarded once Soviet authority consolidated the region by the early 1920s.