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250 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semirechye Oblast Credit Bank |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a regional coat of arms surmounted by a spread eagle with wings raised; the denomination 250 appears in large numerals to the left and right of the arms, with РУБЛЕЙ inscribed below each. A central text panel in Cyrillic script contains the guarantee text referencing the Semirechye Oblast State Bank, flanked by decorative vegetal and fruit motifs. Four manuscript signatures appear across the face, with the date 1919 at top centre and denomination repeated in Arabic script along the upper border. |
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| Reverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ 250 РУБЛЕЙ СЕР. № 010 ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ 1919 |
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Semirechye — the "Seven Rivers" region of what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan — was one of the most geographically isolated theaters of the Russian Civil War. Cut off from Bolshevik and White supply lines alike, local authorities in Vernyi (present-day Almaty) issued their own scrip out of sheer necessity. The Semirechye Oblast Credit Bank was not a functioning central institution in any conventional sense; it was a stopgap measure by a regional administration struggling to maintain economic function while surrounded by competing forces.
The 1919 series, of which this 250 Rouble note is part, circulated in conditions of extreme scarcity and instability. Soviet forces consolidated control over the region by late 1919 and into 1920, after which these notes were demonetized. Survivors are genuinely scarce — not artificially so.