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100 Roubles Kamchatka
| Issuer | Kamchatka Regional Council of National Economy |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 1 June 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design on white paper, with the denomination '100' printed in two oval cartouches at left and right and the value СТО РУБЛЕЙ in large Cyrillic letters across the centre. The issuer's name is set at the top, followed by the title КРЕДИТНЫЙ ЗНАК. A text clause below the denomination states that the note is valid until 1 June 1920 and exchangeable for general Russian credit notes. Two handwritten signatures appear at the bottom alongside printed role titles, with the serial number and date 1920 along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-grey ink with the denomination '100 РУБЛЕЙ' repeated in four corners framing a central vignette of the Russian Imperial coat of arms adapted for the Russian Federative Soviet Republic. A horizontal text band above the coat of arms restricts circulation to the territory of the Kamchatka region, while the word СОВЕТСКАЯ runs along the bottom border and РОССИЙСКАЯ along the top, with РЕСПУБЛИКА and ФЕДЕРАТИВНАЯ set vertically along the left and right margins respectively. An anti-counterfeiting legend is printed below the central vignette. |
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The Kamchatka Regional Council of National Economy was one of dozens of provisional Soviet-era bodies that resorted to local scrip during the civil war years, when central currency simply wasn't reaching the peninsula reliably. Kamchatka's geographic isolation made this more acute than almost anywhere else — supply lines were thin, the population scattered, and formal banking infrastructure was essentially nonexistent.
Pick S1271 belongs to a body of Far Eastern emergency issues that remain genuinely difficult to source today. Survival rates are low not because of heavy circulation but because so little was printed to begin with, and the region's subsequent administrative reorganizations gave no one particular reason to preserve them.