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1000 Roubles Perm
| Issuer | Perm City Society (Пермское Городское Общество) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Red on light red underprint. Central oval vignette contains the arms of Perm (bear passant) within a laurel wreath, flanked by elaborate floral and scrollwork guilloche ornaments. Denomination numeral 1000 appears in circular cartouches at left and right, with the short-term obligation text of the Perm City Society in Cyrillic inscribed across the centre; handwritten text and two manuscript signatures appear along the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПЕРМСКОЕ ГОРОДСКОЕ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЕ Краткосрочный 6% заемъ Пермскаго Городского Общества, на основаніи постановленія Пермской Городской Думы 20 Декабря 1917 года обезпечивается всѣмъ движимымъ и недвижимымъ имуществомъ города Перми и совершается путемъ выпуска долговыхъ обязательствъ на сроки отъ 6 до 12 мѣсяцевъ. |
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The Perm City Society was one of dozens of municipal and cooperative bodies across the collapsing Russian Empire that issued emergency scrip in 1917 as the Provisional Government's monetary authority disintegrated and Romanov-era coins vanished into hoarding. These local instruments filled a genuine transactional void — federal supply of small-denomination notes had broken down entirely by mid-year, and Perm, as a significant industrial and administrative center in the Urals, could not wait for Petrograd to solve the problem.
At 1000 Roubles, this is not a small-change stopgap but a high-value issuance, placing it in a different category from the kopek-denomination city tokens more commonly associated with the period's municipal scrip.