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250 Roubles Transcaspian Region
| Issuer | Askhabad Branch of the People's Bank (Transcaspian Provisional Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle coat of arms, printed in brown on a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination 250 appears in the upper corners and as a large numeral flanking the arms on either side in Cyrillic, reading «250 РУБЛЕЙ». Three manuscript signatures appear below — those of the Manager (Управляющий), Cashier (Кассиръ), and Controller (Контролеръ) — with the date 1919 г. at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ ВЫПУЩЕНЪ ПО РАСПОРЯЖЕНІЮ ЗАКАСПІЙСКАГО ВРЕМЕННАГО ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА ИМЕЕТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ НАРАВНЕ СЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ 250 |
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The Transcaspian Provisional Government was a short-lived, British-backed anti-Bolshevik administration that held the region around Ashkhabad between 1918 and 1919. Starved of supplies and facing Red Army pressure from the north, it collapsed in July 1919 — making its entire currency program a matter of months. This note was issued through the Ashkhabad branch of the People's Bank, which the provisional government retained as a functional institution despite completely reversing its political allegiances from the preceding Soviet period.
The 250-rouble denomination mirrors the same figure used across several competing revolutionary-era Russian issues, a denomination that had become almost a standard unit of emergency finance by 1919.