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290 Roubles Irkutsk
| Issuer | Russian Provisional Government |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ВНУТРЕННІЙ 4½% ВЫИГРЫШНЫЙ ЗАЕМЪ 1917 ГОДА выпущенный на основаніи постановленія Временнаго Правительства отъ 16-го Августа 1917 года. БИЛЕТЪ ВЪ ДВѢСТИ РУБЛЕЙ НАРИЦАТЕЛЬНЫХЪ НА ПРЕДЪЯВИТЕЛЯ. |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents an interest and lottery prize table at left within an ornate guilloche border, printed in Cyrillic and detailing the conditions of redemption and lottery draw schedules for the State Internal 4½% Lottery Loan of 1917. At right, twenty detachable coupons numbered 1 through 20 are laid out in a four-column grid, each enclosed in a decorative guilloche frame with an olive-brown underprint. |
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The 290 Ruble denomination is one of the more peculiar figures in Russian provincial note history — not a rounding convenience, not a traditional banking unit. It was set to match the exact value of a specific gold coin equivalent circulating in Siberia at the time, a calculation driven by local commercial necessity rather than any central monetary policy.
American Bank Note Company produced the plates in New York, though the Provisional Government's hold on Irkutsk and the Trans-Siberian corridor was already precarious by the time these notes reached circulation. The Bolsheviks took Irkutsk in early 1918.