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20 Gold Kopecks Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Bank of the Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | БАНК ДАЛЬНЕ ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ БАНКОВЫЙ БИЛЕТ СЕРИЯ 1922 г. 20 ЗОЛОТОМ Двадцать копеек ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress note with a wide guilloche border enclosing three principal elements: two large circular '20' numeral cartouches at left and right, each captioned 'КОП', and a central coat-of-arms vignette of the Far Eastern Republic flanked by sunburst ornaments. The inscription 'ЗОЛОТОМ' runs beneath the central arms, and a lower rectangular panel carries the redemption text stating that bank notes are freely exchangeable at all Bank of the DVR cashiers for gold, and that one rouble contains 17.424 shares of pure gold. |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived Soviet buffer state established in April 1920 to avoid direct confrontation between Bolshevik Russia and Japan, which still had troops on the ground in Siberia. Its currency was a deliberate fiction — nominally independent monetary policy for a nominally independent republic. By the time these notes were printed in 1922, the FER's days were already numbered; it was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November of that year.
The gold kopeck denomination was an attempt to anchor public confidence by tying the unit to a metallic standard that existed only on paper. No actual gold backing was in place.