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25 Roubles Sakhalin
| Issuer | Sakhalin Oblast People's Revolutionary Committee |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is covered overall with a dense typeset underprint of repeating Cyrillic text reading двадцать пять рублей across multiple horizontal registers, interspersed with rows of alphanumeric characters serving as a primitive security pattern. At centre, a circular guilloche vignette surrounds the large numeral 25, with radiating Cyrillic text. Two text blocks flanking the central vignette state the conditions of exchange and the equivalence of the note's value to the gold rouble of 1915, and a bold Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting warning is printed across the lower portion. |
| Reverse lettering | двадцать пять рублей двадцать пять рублей С ПОЛУЧЕНИЕМ ОБЩЕ-ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫХ ДЕНЕГ ПОДЛЕЖИТ ОБМЕНУ СТОИМОСТЬ РУБЛЯ БОНЫ ПРИРАВНИВАЕТСЯ К ЗОЛОТОМУ РУБЛЮ 1915 ГОДА. ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ. |
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The Sakhalin Oblast People's Revolutionary Committee was a short-lived Bolshevik authority operating on the northern half of the island while Japanese forces held the south following their 1920 intervention. This note is among the most geographically isolated emergency issues from the entire Russian Civil War period — Sakhalin was, by any practical measure, cut off from the monetary supply chains sustaining other Red administrations in the Far East.
Production was almost certainly local and improvised. Surviving examples are genuinely rare, and the committee itself ceased to function within months of issue.