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100 Roubles Tomsk
| Issuer | Tomsk Branch of the State Bank (Томское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Томское Отделение Государственного Банка ЧЕКЪ на 100 руб. Предъявителю его сего Томскаго сто рублей № лиц. счета 0001 1918 г. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, showing the bare paper stock in a uniform pinkish-brown tone with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the emergency cheque character of this issue. |
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Tomsk's State Bank branch began issuing its own rouble notes in 1918 as the civil war shattered any practical ability to move currency from central Russia — Siberian towns were effectively cut off from Moscow's printing apparatus and had to improvise locally. This note is a product of that improvisation: printed in Tomsk using whatever technical resources the branch could muster, which typically meant simpler typographic execution than the engraved pre-revolutionary notes it was nominally supplementing.
The Provisional Siberian Government and multiple competing authorities were all issuing paper simultaneously across western Siberia that year, creating serious public confusion about what was actually redeemable and by whom.