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250 Roubles Second Provisional Siberian Administration
| Issuer | Provisional Siberian Administration, State Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 250 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | The left portion bears the denomination numeral '250' in large format alongside an ornate cartouche enclosing the Imperial double-headed eagle arms in a circular vignette with decorative scrollwork. The main text field, rendered in Cyrillic letterpress, carries the title of the short-term State Treasury obligation, the promise of payment, and the place and date of issue (Omsk, 1 June 1919), with manuscript facsimile signatures of the Director of the State Treasury Department, the Chief of the Accounting Division, and the Accountant. Bilingual marginal inscriptions in French and English appear vertically along the left border, noting the instrument's redemption terms. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is largely plain, printed on white paper with faint ghost impressions of the obverse text visible through the sheet, and a lightly printed circular vignette watermark-like device at the right. No substantive design elements are present, consistent with the utilitarian character of this short-term treasury obligation. |
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The Provisional Siberian Administration — nominally under Kolchak's Supreme Ruler government headquartered in Omsk — issued this note during a period of acute monetary chaos in White-controlled territory. By 1919, the region was flooded with competing paper issues from a dozen local authorities, Kerensky leftovers, and overstamped Imperial notes, all circulating at wildly divergent rates. Getting any paper accepted at face value required the backing of a functioning military front, which Kolchak increasingly lacked after the Red Army's spring offensives.
Printed in Omsk itself rather than abroad — unlike some White government issues that relied on British or Japanese facilities — this series reflects the administrative ambitions of a government that would collapse before the year was out.