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100 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan District Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a double-headed eagle surmounting a shield composed of five heraldic crests, flanked by the large denomination numerals '100' at left and right. Cyrillic inscriptions read 'ВРЕМЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ' (Temporary Credit Note) across the top and 'ТУРКЕСТАН СКАГО КРАЯ' (Turkestan District) in the centre field, with Arabic-script text to the upper right. Serial number and signatures of the Comptroller and Manager appear in the lower portion, all within a guilloche border. |
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| Reverse description | Central text panel carrying the large Cyrillic legend 'СТО РУБЛЕЙ' (One Hundred Roubles) set within an ornate cartouche of scrollwork and foliate guilloche ornaments. A double-headed eagle vignette appears at the upper left, with a crescent and star device at the upper right. Two flanking text blocks in Cyrillic record the authorising decree and the legal-tender obligations of the Turkestan District, with the date '1918' at the foot. |
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The Turkestan District Government was one of dozens of regional authorities that began printing their own currency after the Bolshevik seizure of power disrupted the supply of central bank notes to the periphery. In 1918, Tashkent was the seat of the Turkestan Soviet Republic — a body formally aligned with Moscow but functionally isolated, cut off by the civil war from reliable resupply of both goods and currency. Local emission was a logistical necessity, not a political statement.
S1168 belongs to a crowded field of Central Asian emergency issues from 1917–1920, many of which had extremely short circulation windows before being superseded, demonetized, or simply abandoned as authority changed hands. Tashkent itself fell under repeated pressure from the Basmachi resistance and competing Soviet factions throughout this period.