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100 Roubles Control Stamp - Type 2
| Issuer | Chita Branch of the State Bank (Russia - Civil War issues) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in black on plain paper within a double-rule rectangular border with small ornamental corner devices. The text block at right, arranged in several lines, carries the issuing authority inscription and the regional validity clause. A rectangular blank panel occupies the left portion of the note, intended to receive the affixed control stamp; an applied paper stamp bearing the denomination and the words 'контрольная марка' is pasted in that area. A circular violet ink cancellation stamp of the Chita Branch of the State Bank is impressed over the lower central field. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, visible here as the back of the note, shows the printed text and border in mirror image through the thin paper, with no independent design elements, inscriptions, or ornamentation; the surface is otherwise plain and unprinted. |
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The Chita Branch of the State Bank began issuing locally overprinted currency in 1918 as Siberia fractured into competing White, Red, and independent regional authorities. Ataman Grigory Semyonov's forces controlled the Trans-Baikal region around Chita for much of the Civil War period, and the branch operated under conditions where supply lines to central printing facilities in European Russia were effectively severed. Control stamps were a practical workaround — existing Romanov-era or Provisional Government notes received official branch authorization marks, creating a second recognized type distinct from the first by stamp placement or ink color, depending on the printing batch.
The Type 2 designation indicates a variant within the Chita overprint program, though precise differentiation criteria between Type 1 and Type 2 remain debated among specialists of Siberian Civil War issues.