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1000 Roubles Blagoveshchensk
| Issuer | Blagoveshchensk Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1000 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Cheque-form note printed in black on pink paper, with a decorative border of repeated text running along all four margins. The upper portion bears the Cyrillic heading of the Blagoveshchensk Branch of the State Bank, with the denomination of 1000 roubles entered in manuscript. The body of the note carries printed instructions for transfer from a conditional current account, with the amount written out in cursive Cyrillic at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕКЪ ПРИЗНАЕТСЯ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМЪ ВЪ ТЕЧЕНІЕ ДЕСЯТИ ДНЕЙ СО ВРЕМЕНИ ЕГО ВЫДАЧИ Благовѣщенское отдѣленіе ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА УСЛОВНАГО текущаго счета на Обязуется уплатить предъявителю сего одну тысячу рублей |
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Blagoveshchensk sits on the Amur River directly across from Chinese Manchuria, and in 1919 it was territory contested between Bolshevik forces, the White Army, and Japanese interventionist troops who had occupied much of the Russian Far East since 1918. The branch issues from this region — part of a broader pattern of emergency local currency printed when central supply lines collapsed — functioned more as necessity instruments than formal banking paper. The State Bank branch had neither the infrastructure nor the security materials available to Petrograd.
P#S1259G belongs to a family of Siberian and Far Eastern branch issues that are often confused with one another due to overlapping denominational series and inconsistent authentication markings. Provenance documentation matters here.