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250 Roubles Second Siberian Provisional Administration
| Issuer | Siberian Provisional Government (Omsk) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A vertical rectangular vignette at left centre contains a double-headed eagle device within an ornate cartouche, with the denomination 250 repeated alongside. The body of the note carries a multi-line text block in Cyrillic script constituting the short-term treasury obligation text, with three manuscript signature lines below. Date and serial number appear at the bottom, with the place of issue Omsk noted at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, printed on paper with a faint overall guilloche underprint pattern visible across the entire surface, with no additional inscriptions or vignettes. |
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The Siberian Provisional Government at Omsk — which became the base of Admiral Kolchak's White movement after his November 1918 coup against the Directory — issued this note during a period when anti-Bolshevik forces controlled a vast but shrinking stretch of territory east of the Urals. Currency production was improvised; Omsk lacked the industrial printing infrastructure of Moscow or Petrograd, and quality control across the local runs was inconsistent. Paper stock and ink density vary noticeably between batches.
Kolchak's government collapsed by late 1919 as Red Army pressure forced a catastrophic retreat along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Notes from this administration circulated only briefly before the regime disintegrated entirely in early 1920.