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100 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Russian Imperial Government (State Treasury) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle arms at upper centre flanked by serial number and series designations on either side. The main text in Cyrillic announces the 5½% Short-Term Military Loan of 1916 for a nominal capital of 2,000,000,000 roubles, with the bond denomination 'В СТО РУБЛЕЙ' (One Hundred Roubles) printed in large bold letterpress. The lower portion carries a lengthy printed text detailing the terms and conditions of the bond, with manuscript signatures at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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The Samara Directory notes are among the more administratively tangled emissions of the Russian Civil War period. This 100 Rouble issue is attributed to the Komuch — the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly — which briefly controlled Samara in 1918 after Czech Legion forces drove out the Bolsheviks. The Komuch overprinted or reissued existing Imperial Treasury stock, which is why these notes carry pre-revolutionary Tsarist printing but circulated under a short-lived Socialist-Revolutionary government that lasted fewer than five months before Kolchak's forces absorbed the region.
The Pick S-series designation flags it as a provisional or regional emission — standard Imperial stock repurposed by a government that didn't survive long enough to commission its own paper.