2 Roubles Revenue Stamp - Type 1

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.