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| Issuer | Sakhalin Oblast Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper ground with a decorative ornamental header panel bearing the Cyrillic inscription «КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ» above the regional title «Сахалинской Области» in a framed guilloche band. The large denomination numeral «1000» is printed in brown-orange in the centre, with «РУБЛЕЙ» below in matching letterpress; the date «1918 ГОДЪ» appears at lower left. At upper right, the series letter and serial number are typeset in black, with a block of obligatory text to the right and three manuscript signatures below, for the Управляющий, Контролёр, and Кассир. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ Сахалинской Области Обязателенъ к обращенію наравнѣ съ общегосударственными кредитными билетами и обезпечивается всѣмъ достояніемъ Сахалинской Области. 1918 ГОДЪ 1000 РУБЛЕЙ Управляющій Контролёръ Кассиръ |
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One of several emergency treasury issues from Russia's Far East during the Civil War period, this note was produced by the Sakhalin Oblast Treasury as central banking authority had effectively collapsed east of the Urals. The Provisional Government's fall left regional administrations scrambling to maintain any functioning medium of exchange, and Sakhalin — geographically isolated, economically dependent on fishing and coal — was poorly positioned to sustain that improvisation for long.
The 1918 Sakhalin issues are among the rarer of the Siberian and Far Eastern provisionals. Distance from printing centers almost certainly forced compromises in production quality that made these notes relatively easy to counterfeit.