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100 Roubles Sakhalin
| Issuer | Sakhalin People's Revolutionary Committee |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | АВАНСОВАЯ АССИГНОВКА НАРОДНО-РЕВОЛЮЦИОННЫЙ КОМИТЕТ СТО РУБЛЕЙ 100 КРАТКОСРОЧНЫЙ ВЫПУСК САХ. ОБЛ. НАРОДНО-РЕВОЛЮЦИОННОГО КОМИТЕТА По журналу Бухгалтерии По бухгалтерской книге Казначейства За Председателя Нарревкома Казначей |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in small Cyrillic letterpress text, consisting of multiple numbered articles of regulations governing the circulation and legal status of the advance assignats. A bold warning legend at the foot reads ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ (Forgery is prosecuted by law). Repeated marginal denomination numerals 100 appear along the left and right borders. |
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The Sakhalin People's Revolutionary Committee was a short-lived Bolshevik administrative body established on the northern part of Sakhalin Island following the chaotic withdrawal of White forces in 1920. Local emergency issues like this one were a practical necessity — central Soviet currency had no reliable supply route to the island, and trade needed some medium of exchange. The committee had neither the infrastructure nor the time to commission proper printing, which is reflected in the crude execution of this series.
P#S1281 is among the rarest of the Far Eastern civil war locals. The political entity that issued it ceased to exist within months, and surviving notes were not systematically collected in the region.