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| Issuer | Siberian Provisional Government (State Treasury) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vertical panel bears a large numeral '1000' alongside a double-headed eagle vignette and bilingual text in French and Russian; the central field carries the main text of the 5% short-term State Treasury obligation in Cyrillic script, stating redemption on 1 December 1919, with manuscript signatures of the Director of the State Treasury and the Chief of the Accounting Department below. Serial number with letter prefix appears at lower centre, and the place and date of issue, Omsk, 1 December 1918, are noted at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5% краткосрочное обязательство Государственнаго Казначейства. Предъявителю сего уплачивается 1 Декабря 1919 года тысяча рублей въ Государственномъ Банкѣ, его Конторахъ и Отдѣленіяхъ. Директоръ Státní Государственнаго Казначейства. Начальникъ Бухгалтерскаго Отдѣленія. Бухгалтеръ. Омскъ, 1 Декабря 1918 г. Руб. 1000 |
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The Siberian Provisional Government at Omsk was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik administration that emerged from the chaos following the October Revolution, initially backed by the Czech Legion's grip on the Trans-Siberian Railway. By late 1918 it had been superseded by Kolchak's dictatorship, making the window for legitimate "Provisional" issues extremely narrow. Notes from this period circulated alongside a bewildering variety of competing regional currencies, and public confidence was predictably thin.
Printed locally at Omsk under wartime constraints, the production quality reflects those limitations. Kolchak's subsequent issues eventually displaced these notes entirely.