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100 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussuriisk
| Issuer | Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses (Organizatsiya Kazennykh S.-Kh. Skladov) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | СТО РУБЛЕЙ Заведующий складами и лавками Помощник заведующего Бухгалтерь |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on plain paper, dominated by a central banner cartouche bearing the title ОРГАНИЗАЦИЯ КАЗЕННЫХ С.-Х. СКЛАДОВ. Below, a bold inscription reads ОРДЕР НА 100 РУБЛЕЙ, with a block of smaller Cyrillic text setting out the redemption terms of the order for goods at state agricultural stores in the Primorskaya, Amur, and Sakhalin regions. The denomination 100 appears in circular medallions at each side, the whole enclosed within a multi-rule ornamental frame. |
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The Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses was one of dozens of quasi-governmental bodies in the Russian Far East that resorted to issuing their own scrip during the civil war period, when Kolchak's administration in Siberia was struggling to maintain any coherent monetary supply east of the Urals. Nikolsk-Ussuriisk — renamed Voroshilov in 1935 and now Ussuriysk — sat along the Chinese Eastern Railway corridor, which made it a strategically contested town throughout 1919.
Agricultural warehouse scrip of this type functioned as a local substitute backed implicitly by stored goods rather than any banking reserve. Whether that backing was real or nominal in practice is another matter entirely.