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25 Roubles Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1213 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of an allegorical female figure seated amid industrial and maritime symbols, rendered in intaglio style against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination 25 is repeated in the upper corners and lower left, with the date 1918 flanking the central vignette on both sides. The header inscription reads ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ, with the value ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ in bold letterpress along the lower panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 25 1918 |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived buffer state established in 1920 at Soviet instigation, designed to avoid direct confrontation with Japanese forces occupying the Russian Far East. Its paper currency was never backed by meaningful reserves — the republic's monetary system existed largely as a political instrument, and multiple overlapping series circulated simultaneously alongside Siberian, Soviet, and Japanese-backed scrip.
The FER was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, after Japanese troop withdrawals made the buffer fiction unnecessary. Notes from the 1921 issues had an extremely brief window of nominal validity.