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3 Roubles Batareynaya camp
| Issuer | Welfare Organization Batarenaïa (Siberia) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on plain paper, the note is divided into three vertical panels enclosed within a decorative border of repeated geometric ornaments. The left panel carries the German denomination text, the central panel bears the large numeral '3' above a small vignette of wooden houses in a Siberian rural setting with the issuer inscription 'Batarenaïa Sibir' beneath, and the right panel carries the Hungarian denomination text. Two manuscript signatures appear in red ink at lower left and lower right, with a handwritten serial number in ink at top centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | Drei Rubel zahlt hiefür die Wohlfahrts-Organisation Batarenaïa Sibir Három rubelt fizet ezért a jóleti egyesület (Translation: Three roubles. The Welfare Organization pays in return. Batarenaïa camp, Siberia.) |
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Siberian camp scrip from the Civil War period occupies a strange corner of Russian notaphily — issued not by banks or military commands but by welfare and cooperative organizations scrambling to keep internal economies functioning when Kolchak's ruble was losing credibility by the month. The Batareynaya camp welfare organization issued these notes in 1919 as a purely local exchange medium, redeemable only within the camp's own supply system.
Provenance on individual examples is almost impossible to establish. The issuing body left no archive that survived the Bolshevik consolidation of western Siberia in late 1919 and early 1920.