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250 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semireche Region State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the bold letterpress inscription 'р. 250 р.' at right, with the fully spelled-out value 'ДВѢСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ' along the lower portion. A Cyrillic text block at left sets out the guarantee and anti-counterfeiting notice alongside a decorative scrollwork vignette, and the entire field is enclosed within a chain-link and geometric border. |
| Reverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ р. 250 р. ДВѢСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ Кредитные билеты обеспечиваются всѣм хранилищами Государственного Банка и всѣм достоянием области Семирѣчья. Настоящіе билеты размѣниваетъ Государственный Банкъ. Подѣлка преслѣдуется закономъ |
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The Semireche Region — a vast territory centered on what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — issued its own emergency currency during the Civil War period when the Bolshevik advance had severed the region from central monetary supply. The Semireche State Bank operated under the White forces, and notes like this 250 Rouble were necessities of military administration rather than products of any conventional banking structure.
Semireche issues are among the rarer provincial Civil War emissions. The region's geographic isolation, combined with the rapid collapse of anti-Bolshevik control by late 1919 and early 1920, meant production runs were short and redemption never occurred.