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250 Roubles Biisk
| Issuer | Biysk Branch of the State Bank (Бійскаго Отдѣленія Государственнаго Банка) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕКЪ Бійскаго Отдѣленія Государственнаго Банка Руб. 250.- предъявителю сего уплачивается Бійскимъ Отдѣленіемъ Госуд. Банка ДВѢСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ рублей Управляющій Контролеръ Кассиръ |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a plain typeset text block in pre-reform Cyrillic script, enclosed within a simple ornamental chain border. The text states that the cheque circulates within the town of Biysk and its district on a par with monetary signs, and will be exchanged by the Biysk Branch of the State Bank for general government monetary signs upon receipt of the latter from the Department of Credit Notes of the State Bank. |
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Biysk, a trading town on the Ob river in the Altai region, fell under successive administrations during the Russian Civil War — White, Red, and briefly contested. This note was issued by the local branch of the State Bank under the authority of whichever government held the town at the time of printing, almost certainly the short-lived Siberian provisional structure before the Red Army consolidated control of the region in late 1919 into 1920.
Provincial emergency issues like this one were produced with whatever printing resources existed locally. Circulation was narrow and brief, and most were discarded or destroyed after Soviet monetary unification rendered them worthless.