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3 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semireche Region State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Plain typeset design with the heading КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ at top. The bold numeral '3' and Cyrillic denomination РУБЛЯ appear at centre, flanked on each side by vertical serpentine guilloche ornamental borders. Two columns of printed text fill the left and right fields, stating the note's backing by opium reserves held in the State Bank and all assets of the region, and affirming exchangeability at the State Bank with a counterfeiting warning. |
| Reverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ 3 РУБЛЯ Кредитные билеты обезпечиваются опiемъ хранящимся въ Государственномъ Банкѣ и всѣмъ достоянiемъ области Настоящiе Билеты размѣниваетъ Государственный Банкъ. Поддѣлка преслѣдуется закономъ. |
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The Semireche Region — Semirechye in Russian, roughly "Land of Seven Rivers" — was a remote administrative oblast in what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan. During the Civil War, the region's isolation from Bolshevik supply lines forced local authorities to issue their own emergency currency, entirely disconnected from any central monetary policy. These notes were not an ambition; they were a necessity born of a collapsing supply chain.
P#S1119 belongs to the broader category of Provisional Siberian and Central Asian issues, most of which circulated briefly before Soviet consolidation in the early 1920s rendered them worthless. Survival rates are poor — the region's population was small, the notes were spent rather than saved, and few outside the immediate area ever handled them.