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100 Roubles - Perforated North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Reverse lettering | РУБЛЕЙ 100 |
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| Protection type | Perforation |
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The Provisional Government of the Northern Region — backed by Allied intervention forces at Arkhangelsk and headed nominally by the Socialist-Revolutionary Nikolai Chaikovsky — issued this note during one of the stranger episodes of the Russian Civil War, when British and American troops were actively propping up an anti-Bolshevik administration on Russian soil. The perforation security feature was applied to distinguish notes authorized for local circulation from those that had not yet cleared the issuing authority — a crude but practical safeguard in a region with no stable banking infrastructure and a population deeply uncertain about which currency would survive the month.
Allied withdrawal in autumn 1919 effectively ended the government. Notes not already in circulation became worthless almost immediately.