40 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussuriisk

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.