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20 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussuriisk
| Issuer | Organisation of Customs Agricultural Warehouses (Organizatsiya Tamozhennykh S.-Kh. Skladov), Nikolsk-Ussuriisk |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | ДВАДЦАТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Завѣдующій складами и дѣлами Помощникъ завѣдывающаго Бухгалтеръ |
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| Reverse lettering | ОРГАНИЗАЦІЯ ТАМОЖЕННЫХЪ С.-Х. СКЛАДОВЪ ОРДЕРЪ НА 20 РУБЛЕЙ 20 |
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This note was issued by a highly localized commercial body — a customs agricultural warehouse cooperative — during the chaotic period when the Russian Far East was contested between White Army factions, Japanese interventionist forces, and assorted regional authorities all printing their own scrip. Nikolsk-Ussuriisk (now Ussuriysk) was a significant rail junction on the Trans-Siberian line, and agricultural storage operations there had practical reasons to issue their own exchange instruments when central currency had collapsed entirely.
Warehouse and cooperative-issued scrip from this region in 1919 is among the most ephemeral paper money of the entire Civil War period. Redemption was never guaranteed.