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3 Roubles Orenburg
| Issuer | Orenburg Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on green underprint. The face bears the Cyrillic heading ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ (Money Token) above the issuer's name in two lines, with the large numeral 3 in an ornate cartouche at upper right and a matching cartouche at lower left. The denomination ТРИ РУБЛЯ is set in bold across the centre, below which runs a two-line circulation clause; three manuscript signature lines for the Manager (Управляющий), Controller (Контролер), and Cashier (Кассир) appear in the lower central field. A serial number in Cyrillic prefix and numerals is repeated at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Black on pale underprint. The reverse is dominated by two large ornamental cartouches at left and right, each enclosing the numeral 3 above and below the Cyrillic word РУБЛЯ, framed by foliate scrollwork. The central field carries the denomination ТРИ РУБЛЯ at the top, followed by the issue authority clause ВЫПУЩЕНЪ СЪ РАЗРЕШЕНIЯ МЕСТНОЙ ВЛАСТИ and the redemption notice ПОДЛЕЖИТЪ ОБМЕНУ НА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЕ КРЕДИТНЫЕ БИЛЕТЫ, with the year 1918 in an ornamental frame at the foot. |
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The Orenburg Branch of the State Bank issued these notes during one of the most fractured periods of Russian monetary history — the Civil War years when dozens of regional authorities, cooperatives, and military commands all printed their own currency. Orenburg was contested territory: the city changed hands between Bolshevik and White forces multiple times between 1917 and 1919, and notes issued under one administration were frequently refused under the next.
Regional branch issues like this one typically circulated only within a narrow geographic radius before being rendered worthless by military or political reversal. Survival rates vary sharply depending on which side held the city when the redemption window closed.