100 Roubles Nikolaevsk-on-Amur

The Nikolaevsk-on-Amur branch issued its own emergency currency in 1918 as the Russian Far East fractured into competing authorities following the Revolution. Local branches of the State Bank across Siberia and the Pacific seaboard were printing their own obligations simply to keep commerce functioning — this note is one of the more geographically remote examples of that phenomenon, issued from a port town at the mouth of the Amur River, far outside any central government's effective reach.

Printed locally under obviously constrained conditions, the production quality reflects the resources available at the edge of the empire. Two years later, Nikolaevsk-on-Amur was effectively destroyed during the Nikolaevsk Incident of 1920, when partisan forces killed most of the town's population before burning it.