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15 Roubles Khabarovsk
| Issuer | State Bank, Khabarovsk Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 15 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse bearing a large circular maroon official seal of the Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank applied towards the centre-left. A block of Cyrillic text in maroon stamp ink at the top certifies that the cheque circulates on a par with other monetary denominations, with manuscript signatures and the handwritten number 809 appearing in ink below the seal. |
| Reverse lettering | ЧЕК имеет хождение наравне с прочими денежными знаками текущего счёта |
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The Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank began issuing its own emergency fractional and higher-denomination notes in 1918 as the Russian Civil War severed the Far East from any reliable supply of currency from Petrograd or Moscow. This particular 15-rouble denomination is an oddity even within that chaotic regional emission — fifteen roubles is not a figure that appears in standard pre-revolutionary Russian series, and its existence reflects improvised local arithmetic rather than any centralized design policy.
The Far Eastern regional notes of 1918 are notoriously difficult to authenticate and grade, as numerous forgeries entered circulation almost immediately — a problem the Whites, the Bolsheviks, and independent local governments all documented in contemporary reports.