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100 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Samara Directory (Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle arms at upper centre, flanked by ornate scrollwork corners and laurel branches. The denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ appears in a dark oval panel at centre, with the heading БИЛЕТЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА above. Date panels reading 1914 appear at left and right, with 4% roundels at lower corners and a validity cartouche at bottom stating the note is valid until 1 August 1928; an overprint stamp of the Samara State Bank is visible at centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПОЛОЖЕНІЕ о разрядѣ (серіи) билетовъ Государственнаго Казначейства за № CDXLV (445) ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТ ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТАГО ГОДА СЕРІИ CDXLV (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА СОРОКЪ ПЯТАЯ) |
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The Samara Directory — formally the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, known by its Russian acronym Komuch — established itself in Samara in June 1918 after Czech Legion forces seized the city from Bolshevik control. It was the first anti-Bolshevik government to issue its own currency, drawing legitimacy from the dispersed membership of the Constituent Assembly that the Bolsheviks had dissolved by force in January 1918. The 1914 date on this note is not an error — Komuch deliberately overprinted or adapted existing Imperial Russian treasury stock, borrowing the authority of pre-revolutionary paper to underpin a currency most merchants accepted only under duress.
Komuch collapsed in late 1918 when the Ufa Directory superseded it. The notes had a correspondingly brief window of use.