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1000 Roubles Biisk
| Issuer | Biysk Branch of the State Bank (Бийское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1000 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕКЪ БІЙСКАГО ОТДѢЛЕНІЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА. р. 1000.– Предъявителю сего уплачивается Бійскимъ Отдѣленіемъ Госуд. Банка ОДНА ТЫСЯЧА рублей. Управляющій Контролеръ Кассиръ |
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| Reverse lettering | БІЙСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ Настоящій чекъ имѣетъ хожденіе въ предѣлахъ г. Войска и его уѣзда наравнѣ съ денежными знаками и будетъ обмѣненъ Бійскимъ Отдѣленіемъ Государственнаго Банка на общегосударственные денежные знаки по полученіи ихъ изъ Отдѣла Кредитныхъ билетовъ Государственнаго Банка. |
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Biysk was a Siberian trading town that found itself deep inside anti-Bolshevik territory during the Russian Civil War. This 1000 Rouble note is one of the more obscure locally issued emergency currencies of that period — produced not by a central authority but by the Biysk branch office of the State Bank operating under whatever provisional power controlled the region at the time of printing. The collapse of Kolchak's White movement in late 1919 and early 1920 created a vacuum in which branch banks improvised rather than stopped functioning entirely.
Locally printed emergency issues from this period are notoriously variable in quality and survival. Biysk fell to the Red Army in December 1919, making any note dated 1920 a product of an extremely narrow and chaotic window.