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1000 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | People's Bank of Turkestan (Народный Банк Туркестанского Края) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown by letterpress on plain paper, the obverse presents a straightforward typographic layout bearing the large denomination numeral '1000' and the Cyrillic legend ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ in bold lettering at centre, with serial number panels positioned at upper left and right. The denomination 1000 РУБЛЕЙ is repeated vertically in both side margins, while a counterfeiting penalty warning and the date 1920 occupy the lower centre. Two manuscript signatures of the Commissar-Manager (Комиссар-Управляющий) and the Cashier (Кассир) appear beneath their respective printed titles in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ 1000 ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ Выпущен Народным Банком в гор. Ташкенте по постановлению Совета Народных Комиссаров Российской Социалистической Советской Федеральной Республики. Имеет хождение в пределах Туркестанского края и обязателен к приёму в платёжи наравне с кредитными билетами. Обеспечен всем достоянием Российской Республики. |
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The People's Bank of Turkestan operated under the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which Moscow kept at arm's length — nominally autonomous, practically subordinate. By 1920 the region's monetary supply was catastrophically fragmented, with dozens of local emission authorities producing their own instruments alongside Bolshevik central issues and surviving Tsarist notes, all circulating simultaneously at wildly fluctuating rates.
Printed in Tashkent under severe material constraints, the production quality reflects the reality of a city still absorbing the aftershocks of the 1918–1919 Basmachi resistance and a near-complete breakdown of supply lines from European Russia. The series was short-lived; the 1922 Soviet monetary consolidation rendered all such regional emissions worthless.