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25 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semireche Region (Semirechye Oblast) State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark red on a pink ground, the obverse carries the title inscription КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ in stylised Art Nouveau lettering at centre-left, flanked by elaborate foliate and scroll ornaments, with the denomination ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ set in large bold Cyrillic text below and crossed rifle and axe vignettes at lower left and right. A regional arms stamp appears at upper right above a text block containing guarantee and anti-counterfeiting clauses. Three manuscript signature lines below are assigned to the Комиссаръ Финансовъ, Управляющий Государственным Банкомъ, and Контролеръ Государственнаго Банка, with an additional signature for Военный Комиссаръ at lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 25 |
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Semirechye — the "Seven Rivers" region straddling what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — was among the most isolated theaters of the Russian Civil War. The local branch of the State Bank issued emergency notes in 1918 as supply lines from Omsk and Tashkent collapsed and coin disappeared entirely from circulation. These notes circulated among a population that was roughly half Cossack settler and half Kyrgyz nomad, in territory where barter remained a serious competitor to paper money.
The series is notable for having been produced under genuinely precarious conditions, and surviving examples often show the rough handling that followed — the region changed hands multiple times before Bolshevik consolidation in 1919.