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3 Roubles Astrakhan Region
| Issuer | Astrakhan Treasury (Астраханское Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on light olive-green underprint. The central text reads ТРИ РУБЛЯ (Three Roubles) in large Cyrillic bold lettering, surmounted by the title inscription ВРЕМЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ АСТРАХАНСКАГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА within an ornamental frame with floral scrollwork vignettes at each corner. Denomination numeral 3 appears at upper left, upper right, and lower centre; two manuscript signatures appear at lower left and lower right with their respective titles, and the series designation Т.О.31 is printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 ОБЯЗАТЕЛЕНЪ КЪ ОБРАЩЕНІЮ ВПРЕДЬ ДО ОБМѢНА НА ОБЩЕ-ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЕ КРЕДИТНЫЕ БИЛЕТЫ ПОДДЪЛКА БИЛЕТОВЪ ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ 3 РУБ. |
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The Astrakhan Treasury began issuing regional emergency notes in 1918 as Bolshevik authority fractured across the lower Volga. These were not a local bank's initiative but a direct function of the regional treasury apparatus — an important distinction, since it reflects administrative continuity with the old imperial system even as the civil war made central supply lines untenable. Dozens of regional and municipal bodies across the former empire printed their own currency during this period, and Astrakhan's issues belong to that chaotic proliferation rather than to any coordinated monetary policy.
P#S442 is among the scarcer surviving Astrakhan pieces; the region changed hands more than once during 1918–1919, and most locally circulating paper was destroyed or abandoned during those transitions.