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25 Roubles Archangel - White regime
| Issuer | Archangel Branch of the State Bank (Государственный Банк, Архангельское Отделение) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 25 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕК НА ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ Предъявитель сего чека имѣетъ получить изъ кассы АРХАНГЕЛЬСКАГО ОТДѢЛЕНІЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА или одного изъ казначействъ Архангельской губерніи ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ |
| Reverse description | Plain light ground with a decorative guilloche border and a large rectangular central text panel. A red overprint carries the legend of the Archangel Branch of the State Bank, noting temporary issue authority and legal-tender status within Arkhangelsk guberniya, with the bold inscription АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ at the foot. A small imperial eagle vignette appears at the top of the central panel, and a manuscript cashier signature is visible below the text. |
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The Archangel branch notes of 1918 were issued under the short-lived Northern Region government — a White administration backed by Allied intervention forces that occupied Archangel from August 1918. The State Bank branch there had been cut off from Bolshevik-controlled Moscow and issued its own obligations partly to pay Allied-assisted military and civil operations in the frozen north.
The series circulated in an isolated pocket of territory with severe supply constraints and no meaningful economic base. Notes from this branch were demonetized when the Whites evacuated in 1920, leaving substantial quantities unredeemed.