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100 Roubles Samara Directory

Issuer Komitet Chlenov Uchreditelnogo Sobraniya (Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly - Komuch)
Year 1918
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Value 100 Roubles
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Obverse description Black on green underprint. A short-term obligation (краткосрочное обязательство) of the Council of Managing Departments of the Committee of Members of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, with the Imperial arms vignette at left within an ornate cartouche. The denomination 100 roubles is indicated in the upper right, with a serial number below the central text block. Multiple manuscript signatures of council members and a countersignature appear at centre-right, with printed text conditions at the foot.
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Reverse description Plain white reverse with no printed design, showing fold marks and light paper texture consistent with circulation use.
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Komuch — the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly — controlled Samara only from June to October 1918, when the city fell to the Bolsheviks. That four-month window is precisely why this note exists. The Komuch government, backed by the Czech Legion's seizure of Samara, issued currency as a direct assertion of legitimacy against both the Bolsheviks and the White monarchist factions; these notes explicitly invoked the Constituent Assembly dissolved by Lenin in January 1918.

The printing infrastructure available in Samara in mid-1918 was limited, and the series shows it — production quality varies noticeably across surviving examples.

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