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100 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semirechye Oblast State Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central cartouche in scrollwork frame bears the numeral 100 in large letterpress print, with the Cyrillic inscription КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ (Credit Note) above. Series number Серія № 010 appears at upper left and right. Two columns of explanatory text flank the central vignette, with four manuscript signatures of regional bank officials along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ СТО РУБ. 100 Серія № 010 Кредитные билеты обезпечиваются суммами хранящимися в Государственном Банке и всеми достоянiями области Семирьечья. Настоящие билеты размениваются Государственный Банк. Подделка преследуется законом. Пред. Об. Исп. Ком. Упр. Банком Зав. Фин. Отд. Кассир |
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Semirechye — the "Seven Rivers" region of what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — issued its own emergency currency during the Russian Civil War when central banking had effectively collapsed and the White forces controlling the area couldn't reliably source notes from Omsk or anywhere else. The Semirechye Oblast State Bank was not a bank in any functional peacetime sense; it was an improvised administrative body trying to keep local commerce from reverting entirely to barter.
P#S1131 is among the more geographically remote emissions of the entire Civil War period. Printing resources were severely limited, and the notes were produced under conditions closer to field printing than institutional issue.