Catalog
3 Rubļi Soviet of Riga
| Issuer | Council of Riga Workers' Deputies (Rigas Strādneeku Deputatu Padome) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | First Rouble (1919-1922) |
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| Obverse description | Green and pink letterpress note with a dense guilloche underprint throughout. The central panel carries the bold denomination legend MAINAS ZĪME / TRĪS RUBĻI within a rectangular frame, flanked on the left by an octagonal vignette enclosing a red star with hammer-and-sickle device and circular Latvian text, and on the right by an octagonal numeral «3». The issuing authority RIGAS STRĀDNEEKU DEPUTATU PADOMES is printed across the top and bottom margins, with the date 1919, series letters, and two manuscript facsimile signatures of the Chairman (PREEKŠSĒDETAJS) and Secretary (SEKRETARS) at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | RIGAS×STRĀDNEEKU×DEPUTATU×PADOMES MAIꞤAS ZĪMJU VILTO- TAJI KA ARI VILTOTO ZĪMJU IZPLĀTITAJI TIKS SAUKTI PEE ARBILDIBAS REVOLUCIONARĀ TRIBU- NALA PREEKŠĀ UN SODI- TI AR AUGSTAKO SO- DA MĒRU (Translation: Counterfeit markings and distributors of counterfeit notes will be called to account before the Revolutionary Tribunal and punished with the highest penalty) |
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The Council of Riga Workers' Deputies held power in the city for only five months — from January to May 1919 — before Latvian national forces, supported by German Freikorps units, retook the capital. This note belongs to that brief Soviet interlude, one of several short-lived revolutionary administrations that emerged across the former Russian Empire as central authority collapsed after 1917.
Over twelve million printed for a government that lasted under half a year. Most of these notes would have become worthless almost immediately upon issue, which paradoxically does not make survivors rare — they simply never wore out.