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100 Roubles Astrakhan Region
| Issuer | Astrakhan Treasury (Астраханское Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a female allegorical figure seated at left alongside a male figure, with a cityscape in the background and a decorative fruit and foliage arrangement at lower right. The large denomination «СТО РУБЛЕЙ» (One Hundred Roubles) is rendered in bold letterpress at upper centre, with a secondary numeral «100» integrated into the guilloche underprint at right. The date 1918 appears within a Star of David ornament at lower left, flanked by signature lines for the Commissioner of Finance and the Treasurer. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a central oval cartouche containing the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle, set against an elaborate symmetrical design of acanthus scrollwork and guilloche ornament. The denomination «СТО РУБЛЕЙ» appears in large type at upper left, with numerals «100» repeated at lower left and lower right within the decorative framework. A text panel at upper right carries the redemption and anti-forgery notice in Cyrillic script. |
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The Astrakhan Treasury notes of 1918 belong to a chaotic period when the collapse of centralized Russian monetary authority forced regional bodies — treasuries, municipal councils, cooperatives — to print their own emergency scrip. Astrakhan, sitting at the Volga delta and a contested prize throughout the Civil War, was briefly under White-aligned administration before Bolshevik forces took firm control in 1919. Notes issued by the Astrakhan Treasury fall into that narrow, violent window.
S445A is among the harder Astrakhan issues to attribute cleanly, as local production conditions were improvised and print runs poorly documented.