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100 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semirechye Oblast Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Central large numeral '100' in Cyrillic style flanked by series number panels reading 'Серія № 007' at upper left and right, with the denomination 'СТО РУБЛЕЙ' in bold letterpress at lower centre and 'Р. 100 Р.' in large script above it. The note carries a text block at lower left detailing the guarantee of issue by the State Bank and Semirechye Oblast institutions, with guilloche border ornamentation framing the entire face. Three manuscript signatures of regional banking officials appear at right, identified by their roles as Chairman of the Oblast Executive Committee, Manager of the Bank, and Cashier. |
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| Reverse description | Seated male figure accompanied by two winged cherubs at lower centre, with a bridge vignette at left and a rural farm scene at right, all rendered in a classical allegorical engraving style typical of Imperial Russian banknote design conventions. |
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The Semirechye Oblast sits in what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — a remote, predominantly agricultural region that in 1918 found itself effectively cut off from any functioning central monetary authority. The Bolshevik seizure of power had shattered normal currency supply chains, and local administrations across the former Russian Empire scrambled to print their own notes simply to pay troops and keep markets functioning.
P#S1128 is one of dozens of such provisional emissions, collectively called "bonы" by contemporaries — obligations of necessity rather than banking instruments in any formal sense. Semirechye's isolation made redemption a theoretical concept at best; the notes circulated by inertia and local trust, not any institutional guarantee.
The "S" prefix in Pick's numbering places this squarely in the Russian Civil War local issue category, a designation covering hundreds of regional, municipal, and military emissions from 1917–1922.