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40 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussuriisk
| Issuer | Organization of State Agricultural Warehouses, Nikolsk-Ussuriisk |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette with a rural landscape scene, flanked on either side by large stylised numerals '40' set within ornate decorative frames. The Cyrillic inscription СОРОКЪ РУБЛЕЙ (Forty Roubles) runs across the centre. Three signature lines appear in the lower portion, each headed by a printed title in Cyrillic, with the entire design enclosed within a guilloche border; denomination digits '40' repeated in each corner. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in purple-brown on plain paper and is dominated by a large ornamental panel bearing the Cyrillic heading ОРГАНИЗАЦІЯ КАЗЕННЫХЪ С.-Х. СКЛАДОВЪ, with a central cartouche reading ОРДЕРЪ НА 40 РУБЛЕЙ. Below this, a block of smaller Cyrillic text sets out the conditions of redemption, referring to the Primorskaya and Sakhalin regions. Denomination circles bearing the numeral '40' appear at left and right, and the entire composition is framed by a guilloche border with corner repeats of '40'. |
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Nikolsk-Ussuriisk, in the Russian Far East, was one of dozens of local authorities and cooperative bodies that issued their own scrip during the civil war period, when Kolchak's rouble and various Allied-backed currencies competed for acceptance across Siberia and Primorye simultaneously. The Organization of State Agricultural Warehouses was a grain storage authority, not a bank — which makes this note an unusual example of commodity-adjacent scrip, its issuing body's legitimacy tied to physical stores of grain rather than any monetary reserve.
The Far Eastern Republic would absorb the region in 1920, rendering most locally issued paper worthless within months of printing.