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20 Roubles Khabarovsk
| Issuer | Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank (Хабаровское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1225D |
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| Reverse lettering | имѣетъ хожденіе на ряду съ прочими денежными знаками, сумма обезпечена текущимъ счетомъ Директоръ Комптролеръ Бухгалтеръ Командиръ |
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| Protection description | Red circular official seal applied on obverse; violet circular seal of the Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank applied on reverse; perforated numeral cancellation punch on reverse |
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The summer of 1918 was administratively chaotic in the Russian Far East. With Bolshevik authority collapsing and the White movement not yet consolidated, local branches of the State Bank began issuing their own emergency currency simply to keep commerce functioning. This Khabarovsk issue is a product of that institutional improvisation — printed locally, with whatever equipment and paper the branch had on hand.
The perforation security feature is notable: locally-produced emergency notes rarely bothered with anything beyond a rubber seal, making the perforated series slightly more deliberate in execution than most regional contemporaries.