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100 Roubles Government of The North Region
| Issuer | Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Archangel) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Plain white ground with Cyrillic text body occupying the central field, stating the obligation to pay 100 roubles at the Archangel Branch of the State Bank, dated 15 February 1919. A vertical oval guilloche vignette with the numeral 100 appears at left, with French and English denominating inscriptions in the left margin; three manuscript signatures of issuing officials appear in the lower central area above a serial number, with further handwritten annotations at bottom. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain paper with faint ghost impressions of the obverse text visible through the sheet; no distinct design elements, vignettes, or inscriptions are present, consistent with a simple wartime emergency issue. |
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The Provisional Government of the Northern Region was a White movement administration established at Archangel in August 1918, propped up by Allied intervention forces — British, French, and American troops who had landed ostensibly to prevent war materiel from falling to the Central Powers but who stayed to contest the Bolshevik consolidation of power. The note exists because the regime needed a functioning currency to pay civil servants and local suppliers in a territory with no functioning connection to any recognized central bank.
Allied forces withdrew by late 1919, and the government collapsed in February 1920. The currency became worthless almost overnight, which paradoxically left substantial quantities unspent and in reasonable condition.