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1000 Roubles - Perforated North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Supreme Administration of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1000 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Dark-brown intaglio text on green guilloche underprint. The face bears the large Cyrillic inscription ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ (State Credit Note) at the top, with ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ (One Thousand Roubles) below, and the numeral 1000 in bold at left and right. A central text block carries the gold-convertibility clause, flanked by two manuscript facsimile signatures; the date 1917 appears at the bottom centre, with the serial number printed twice in blue. |
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| Protection description | Watermark present in the paper; official perforation applied by the Chaikovskiy Government to validate the base 1917 State Credit Note for use in Northern Russia. |
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The Supreme Administration of the Northern Region — the so-called Chaikovskiy Government, named for the Socialist Revolutionary Nikolai Chaikovskiy — controlled Arkhangelsk briefly under Allied protection following the 1918 intervention. This note was issued against that backdrop of extreme political instability, with the administration dependent on British military and financial support for its very survival.
The perforation is the cataloguing key here. Perforated examples of S183 were cancelled — typically punched through before or after the government's collapse in early 1920 — distinguishing them from notes that entered genuine circulation. Finding one in unperforated condition tells a different story entirely.