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250 Roubles Nikolaevsk-on-Amur
| Issuer | Amurskaya Zolotopromyshlennaya Kompaniya (Amur Gold Mining Company) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset document format on unadorned white paper, with the issuer's name printed in Cyrillic along the left vertical margin and across the top. The central field consists of printed text in Cyrillic establishing the transfer order, with the denomination written both in numerals (Руб. 250) and in words (Двести пятьдесят рублей), dated April 20, 1920. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion alongside their respective title designations, accompanied by two circular violet official stamps of the issuing company. |
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| Obverse lettering | АМГУНСКАЯ ЗОЛОТОПРОМЫШЛЕННАЯ КОМПАНИЯ. ПЕРЕВОДНОЕ ПИСЬМО Крйсковаго Управленiя. № 2468 Руб. 250 Выдано Апреля 20 дня 1920 года. Г. Представителю шахте получить из кассы Исполкома на получение въ Николаевскомъ Отдѣленiи Русско-Китайскаго Банка Двести пятьдесятъ рублей. Председатель Главноуправляющiй Бухгалтеръ |
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The Amur Gold Mining Company issued scrip in 1920 during one of the most violent episodes of the Russian Civil War in the Far East. Nikolaevsk-on-Amur was held by partisan forces under Yakov Tryapitsyn, whose occupation culminated in the systematic massacre of the town's population and the burning of the settlement to the ground in May 1920 — an event known as the Nikolaevsk Incident. Notes issued here that year exist in a narrow window between the collapse of conventional authority and total destruction of the town itself.
That this scrip survives at all is the real point of interest.