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100 Roubles Ekaterinburg
| Issuer | Ekaterinburg Branch of the State Bank (Екатеринбургское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A blacksmith vignette at left and a peasant figure at right flank the large ornate numeral '100' at centre, rendered in a bold decorative typeface with the date '1918' below. The note carries multiple manuscript signatures of regional officials in the right field, below which lines designate their respective titles. The overall design is typeset in Cyrillic letterpress with minimal guilloche ornamentation, consistent with the emergency issue character of this Ural regional credit note. |
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| Obverse lettering | РАБОЧЕЕ и КРЕСТЬЯНСКОЕ ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВО Российской Федеративной Республики Советов Екатеринбургское Отделение Государственнаго Банка Областной кредитный билет Урала ЧРЕЗВЫЧАЙНАГО ВЫПУСКА СТО РУБЛЕЙ 1918 Председатель Областного Комитета Комиссар Финансов Урала Управляющий Екатеринбургским Отделением Государственного Банка Кассир Комиссар Екатеринбургского Отделения Государственного Банка |
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This note was issued by the Ekaterinburg branch during the brief window when the Ural region was controlled by the anti-Bolshevik Provisional Government of the Urals. Ekaterinburg fell to the Red Army in July 1919, and with it the branch's authority to issue currency collapsed entirely. The timing matters: the Romanov family was executed in Ekaterinburg in July 1918, the same summer this note entered circulation, in a city that was simultaneously a White stronghold and the site of the regime change the Whites were fighting against.
Regional State Bank branches across Siberia and the Urals produced a patchwork of locally authorized issues in 1918–1919, many sharing design elements with imperial-era notes. Distinguishing genuine branch issues from locally printed substitutes requires close attention to paper stock and serial formatting.