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2 Roubles Revenue Stamp - Type 1
| Issuer | Chita Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 110 × 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | (Note) ЧИТИНСКОЕ ОТДЕЛѢНИЕ Государственнаго Банка. Имѣетъ хожденіе наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами в предѣлахъ Забайкальской области. (Paper Stamp) Гербовая марки 2 рубля 2 (Ink stamp) Читинское Отделение Государственного Банка (Translation: (Note) CHITA BRANCH OF THE STATE BANK. Valid for use in the Transbaikal region on a par with banknotes. (Paper Stamp) Revenue Stamp 2 roubles 2 (Ink stamp) Chita Branch of the State Bank) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is blank, without any printed text, vignette, or ornamental element. |
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Chita served as the administrative center of the Transbaikal region and, during 1918, hosted a rapidly shifting series of authorities — Bolshevik, then anti-Bolshevik, then nominally under Ataman Semenov's brutal and erratic control. The State Bank branch there resorted to overprinting or repurposing existing revenue stamp stock when conventional banknote supply from Petrograd became impossible to guarantee. This was not unique to Chita, but the Transbaikal context made supply disruptions especially acute given the region's isolation and the chaos along the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Revenue stamp coinage substitutes of this type are notoriously difficult to attribute with precision — "Type 1" distinctions often rest on minor typographic differences in the overprint rather than any formal issuing document.