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1000 Roubles Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a plough set against a landscape of water and mountains beneath a guilloche border, with the denomination numeral '1000' repeated at left and right. The heading ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ appears at top, with the bold inscription ДАЛЬНЕ-ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ across the centre. Serial number in red at upper left and right, with manuscript signatures of the Manager (УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ) and Cashier (КАССИР) at lower left and right respectively, and the year 1920 at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ДАЛЬНЕ-ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ 1920 УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ КАССИР |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived buffer state, nominally independent but effectively a Soviet instrument designed to forestall direct confrontation with Japanese forces occupying eastern Siberia after the Russian Civil War. Its paper currency was issued with a practicality born of that diplomatic fiction — the republic needed to function as a state, which required a banking apparatus and circulating notes, even though Moscow was pulling the strings throughout.
The 1000 Rouble denomination sits at the top of the FER's issue range, and given the hyperinflationary pressures tearing through the former Russian empire in 1920, even this figure bought little. The republic was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, after which FER notes became worthless overnight.