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3 Roubles Batareynaya camp
| Issuer | Wohlfahrts-Organisation, Lager Batereynaya, Siberia |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper, divided into two panels by a vertical rule with decorative diamond-border frame enclosing the whole note. The left panel carries the main text legend in a bold script typeface with three manuscript signatures in red ink below. The right panel bears a vignette of a camp settlement with wooden houses and a hillside landscape, with the large numeral '3' above and the camp name inscription along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain cream paper with no design, text, or ornamentation, showing age-related foxing and fold lines consistent with circulation. |
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Siberian prisoner-of-war and internment camp scrip from the Russian Civil War period is among the most obscure of all emergency issues. The Wohlfahrts-Organisation — a welfare organization operating within the camp — issued these notes to facilitate internal exchange, a practice common in isolated camps where Russian currency was either unavailable or deliberately withheld from inmates. Batareynaya's location in Siberia placed it squarely in the chaos of 1919, when the region was contested between Kolchak's White forces and the advancing Red Army.
Almost nothing survives. Camp scrip of this type was issued in small quantities, redeemed within a closed system, and rarely left the wire.