100 Roubles Samara Directory

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.