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250 Roubles Kamchatka
| Issuer | Kamchatka Regional Council of National Economy (Камчатский Областной Совет Народного Хозяйства) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S1272 |
| Obverse description | Plain blue-printed credit note on white paper, framed by a simple decorative border. The issuer's name appears at the top in Cyrillic, above the large central inscription КРЕДИТНЫЙ ЗНАК and the denomination ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ in bold letterpress, flanked by numeral value panels reading 250 on each side. A text clause below the denomination states the note's validity period to 1 June 1920 and its equivalence to general Russian credit bills, with signature lines for the Chairman of the Council, the Deputy Finance Commissar, and the Treasurer at the bottom, accompanied by the serial number and year 1920. |
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| Obverse lettering | Камчатский Областной Совет Народного Хозяйства КРЕДИТНЫЙ ЗНАК ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬ-ДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ Кредитный знак имеет хождение до 1 Июня 1920 г. и равняется на общие Российские кредитные билеты Председатель Совета За Комиссара Финансов Казначей 1920 |
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One of the more remote emergency issues of the Russian Civil War period, this 250 Rouble note was produced by the Kamchatka Regional Council of National Economy in 1920 — a body that exercised only the most precarious administrative authority over a peninsula largely cut off from both Red and White power centers. Supply lines to Kamchatka were effectively severed, and local authorities were forced to improvise a circulating medium entirely on their own resources.
Printed locally under those conditions, the technical quality reflects what was available at the edge of the Russian Far East. The series is genuinely scarce — Kamchatka's population at the time was under 10,000, and surviving examples are rarely encountered outside specialist collections.