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Green and black letterpress note with an intricate guilloche underprint covering the entire field. At centre, the city coat of arms of Libau is set within a decorative cartouche flanked by the denomination numerals '3' in large bold type on either side, with '3 Руб.' to the left and '3 Вы.' to the right. Ornamental rosettes occupy each corner, and the date '1915 г.' appears below the central vignette. |
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Green and black letterpress design essentially mirroring the obverse layout, with the same guilloche underprint and corner rosettes bearing the numeral '3'. The city coat of arms of Libau appears at centre within a decorative frame, flanked by the denomination values, and the date '1915 г.' is printed below the central shield. |
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Libau — now Liepāja — was under Russian imperial administration when German forces pushed through Courland in the spring of 1915. The city fell to Germany in early May, but this note was issued by the Russian-era municipal government before the occupation, as the collapsing front severed normal currency supply lines from Petrograd. Municipal emergency emissions like this one filled the gap left by an imperial banking system that had simply stopped functioning at the local level.
The watermarked paper indicates some preparation — this was not a purely improvised scrip — but the issuing authority ceased to exist within weeks of printing.