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25 Roubles Orenburg
| Issuer | Orenburg Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on a light red underprint; a decorative cartouche at left encloses the numeral '25', with the issuer's name in Cyrillic across the upper register and the denomination 'ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' in large script across the centre. A central text panel carries the legal-tender clause, the year '1917' set within an ornamental frame at lower right, and a serial number at lower left. Three manuscript signatures of the Manager, Cashier, and Controller appear along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress on plain paper; a large ornamental cartouche at left bears the numeral '25' above the word 'РУБЛЕЙ', framed by foliate and wheat-ear decoration. A central rectangular guilloche panel carries the redemption clause text. Two smaller decorative medallions at upper right and lower right each bear the word 'РУБЛЕЙ'. |
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The Orenburg Branch of the State Bank began issuing local obligation notes in 1917 as central authority collapsed and regional financial networks fractured. This 25 Rouble note belongs to a wider proliferation of provincial issues across the former Russian Empire during the revolutionary period, when branch banks, municipal councils, and military governments alike printed their own paper to keep commerce moving.
Orenburg sat at a strategically critical junction — gateway to the Kazakh steppe and a flashpoint in the subsequent civil war between Bolshevik forces and the Cossack army under Ataman Dutov. Notes from this branch had an exceptionally short practical lifespan before the region changed hands repeatedly.