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3 Roubles Latvia, Libava, Libau
| Issuer | City of Liepāja (Libava) Municipal Government |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 3 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Libava (Liepāja) is centered as the central vignette, with the numeral denomination "3" repeated in each corner. The city name appears in Cyrillic script across the upper portion of the note, above the arms. Text panels carry the obligation legend and anti-counterfeiting warning in Russian, with the denomination also rendered in abbreviated Latin script. |
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| Obverse lettering | Либавское Городское Самоуправление ОБЯЗУЕТСЯ ОПЛАТИТЬ НАСТОЯЩУЮ ДОЛГОВУЮ РАСПИСКУ НЕМЕДЛЕННО ПОСЛЕ ОКОНЧАНIИ ВОЙНЫ 3 Руб. ПОДДЪЛКА КАРАЕТСЯ ПО УГОЛОВНЫМЪ ЗАКОНАМЪ. 3 Rbl. (Translation: Libava City Government. [The government is] obliged to pay the debt banknote immediately after the end of the war. 3 Rub. Forgery is punished under criminal law.) |
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Libava — known in German as Libau — was under Russian Imperial administration when this note was issued, and the city's municipal government resorted to producing emergency fractional currency after the disruptions of the early war years severed normal coin supply lines. The trilingual identity of the city (Latvian, Russian, German) is embedded in the naming conventions of the series itself.
Russian Imperial forces evacuated Libau in May 1915 as German troops advanced through Courland. Notes of this type were almost certainly printed and circulated right at the edge of that occupation transition, which raises genuine questions about how long any individual example remained in accepted use before the new military administration imposed its own currency regime.