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100 Roubles Orenburg
| Issuer | Orenburg Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown on pale orange underprint. The central vignette shows the Imperial arms flanked by laurel branches, with the denomination numeral 100 printed in large figures to each side. The heading inscription in Cyrillic reads «Денежный знакъ Оренбургскаго Отделенія Государственнаго Банка», with «РУБЛЕЙ» in bold letterpress along the lower register. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left alongside printed role designations for the Manager and Cashier, with a serial number repeated at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Денежный знакъ ОРЕНБУРГСКАГО ОТДЕЛЕНІЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА 100 РУБЛЕЙ Имеетъ хожденіе наравне съ государственными кредитными билетами. Подделка преследуется закономъ. Управляющій Кассиръ |
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The Orenburg Branch of the State Bank began issuing its own regional obligations in 1917 as the central monetary system fragmented following the February Revolution. Orenburg sat at a strategically volatile crossroads — the city changed hands multiple times during the Civil War, passing between Bolshevik forces and the armies of Ataman Dutov, whose Orenburg Cossack Host controlled the region intermittently through 1919. Which authority actually authorized and circulated any given note from this branch is not always straightforward to determine.
S978 is among the more elusive of the Orenburg regional issues, with surviving examples disproportionately few relative to the print runs implied by their serial ranges.