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100 Roubles Provisional Power of the Pribaikal Region
| Issuer | Provisional Zemstvo Power of the Pribaikal Region |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an allegorical seated female figure, wreathed in flowers and surrounded by fruits and agricultural produce, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The denomination 100 appears in all four corners, with the year 1918 flanking the central vignette at left and right. The upper portion bears the Cyrillic inscription ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ, with СТО РУБЛЕЙ in a banner below the central vignette, accompanied by signature lines for the Управляющий and Кассир. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large black overprint in a rectangular cartouche at centre, bearing the text ВРЕМЕННАЯ ЗЕМСКАЯ ВЛАСТЬ ПРИБАЙКАЛЬЯ in bold Cyrillic lettering, applied over the underlying State Credit Note design of guilloche ornamental borders and corner medallions bearing the numeral 100. The header retains the original ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ inscription. Vertical text panels appear along the left and right margins. |
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The Provisional Zemstvo Power of the Pribaikal Region was one of the many fragmented anti-Bolshevik administrations that briefly controlled territory east of Lake Baikal during the Russian Civil War. This note was issued in 1920 — the same year the Far Eastern Republic was proclaimed as a nominally independent buffer state between Soviet Russia and Japan — and the Pribaikal zemstvo's authority was already collapsing as it went to press. Notes of this series circulated alongside a chaotic mixture of Kolchak-era Siberian currency, Japanese military scrip, and local emergency issues, with exchange rates largely fictitious.
Surviving examples are relatively scarce given the short window of issue and the political turmoil that followed almost immediately.