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100 Roubles Astrakhan Region
| Issuer | Astrakhan Treasury (Астраханское Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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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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| Obverse lettering | Временный кредитный билетъ Астраханскаго Казначейства СТО РУБЛЕЙ 100 СТО РУБЛЕЙ Комиссаръ финансовъ Казначей А. К. 120. |
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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.