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250 Roubles - Perforated North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Brown and green letterpress printing on a light guilloche underprint, centred on a vignette of the double-headed Russian Imperial eagle without crown. The large numeral '250' appears symmetrically to either side of the eagle, with the word 'РУБЛЕЙ' in bold Cyrillic lettering above and below, and a Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting warning inscription positioned beneath the eagle, all contained within a decorative border frame. |
| Reverse lettering | РУБЛЕЙ 250 ПОДДЪЛКА КРЕДИТНЫХЪ БИЛЕТОВЪ ПРЕСЛЪДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — formally the Provisional Government of the Northern Region, backed by Allied intervention forces operating out of Arkhangelsk — issued this note during one of the more peculiar episodes of the Russian Civil War. Nikolai Chaikovskiy, the Socialist Revolutionary who headed it, led an administration that existed largely because British and American troops were present to keep it alive. When Allied withdrawal became inevitable in 1919, the government's financial instruments became worthless almost overnight.
The perforation cancellation on this note is the significant detail. Surviving perforated examples were officially cancelled before or during the evacuation and monetary wind-down — a deliberate demonetization procedure rather than a collector affectation.