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3 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan District (Краевой Совет Туркестанского Края) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 3 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | A double-headed eagle vignette occupies the centre, flanked by the date "1918" and the large Cyrillic denomination "ТРИ РУБЛЯ" in bold letterpress below. The heading "ВРЕМЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ" (Temporary Credit Note) appears at the top, with "ТУРКЕСТАНСКОГО КРАЯ" arched above the eagle, and serial numbers printed in the upper left and lower right corners. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note, with a geometric guilloche border framing the entire face. |
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| Obverse lettering | ВРЕМЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ТУРКЕСТАНСКОГО КРАЯ ТРИ РУБЛЯ 1918 Виновные въ подделке подлежатъ наказанію, какъ за подделку Государственных кредитных билетовъ Управляющій Кассиръ |
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The Kraevoy Sovet Turkestanskogo Kraya — the Regional Soviet of Turkestan — was cut off from Moscow following the collapse of rail communications and the encirclement by anti-Bolshevik and Basmachi forces in 1918. Unable to receive currency from the centre, it printed its own. Tashkent produced several denominations under these siege conditions, with output constrained by whatever paper stock and printing equipment the city held.
The isolation was not brief. Turkestan remained effectively blockaded until 1919, meaning these notes circulated under genuine emergency pressure, not as a formality.