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100 Roubles Perm
| Issuer | Perm City Society (Пермское Городское Общество) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Pale olive-yellow on cream paper, the centre occupied by an oval vignette within a laurel wreath bearing the Perm civic arms — a bear passant above a fortification — set against elaborate scrolling foliate ornament. The denomination numeral '100' appears in plain circles at the left and right margins. Below the vignette, a two-line Cyrillic obligation clause provides manuscript spaces for the sum and for the countersignatures of the Городской Голова, Бухгалтер, and Член Управы, all acting по уполномочию Пермской Думы. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper enclosed by a single thin rectangular border frame. The heading 'ПЕРМСКОЕ ГОРОДСКОЕ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЕ.' is set in large decorative pre-reform Cyrillic type across the upper portion, below which a block of smaller text in pre-reform Russian orthography sets out the legal basis of the short-term 6% loan authorised by resolution of the Perm City Duma of 20 December 1917, secured against all movable and immovable property of the city of Perm and issued as debt obligations with maturities of six to twelve months. |
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The Perm City Society was one of dozens of municipal and cooperative bodies across the collapsing Russian Empire that issued their own scrip in 1917 as the central supply of Romanov-era and Provisional Government banknotes dried up. These local obligations — often called "bonovy" or simply city money — filled an immediate vacuum in small-denomination exchange, but their legal standing was perpetually ambiguous and their acceptance rarely extended beyond the issuing district.
Perm fell to Kolchak's White forces in December 1918 and was recaptured by the Red Army in July 1919, a back-and-forth that destroyed most locally issued paper. Surviving examples of this note are correspondingly scarce.