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5 Gold Kopecks Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Bank of the Far Eastern Republic (Банк Дальне-Восточной Республики) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in brown and grey tones on plain paper, framed by a fine geometric border with a repeating guilloche pattern along the outer edge. At the top, the issuing authority and note type are inscribed in two lines of Cyrillic text; the large numeral '5' occupies a central ornamental cartouche flanked by the denomination inscriptions 'ПЯТЬ КОПЕЕК' and the qualifier 'ЗОЛОТОМ' (gold) to each side. Below the central vignette appear two manuscript signatures above their respective titles — Директор Правления and Кассир — with the series designation, anti-counterfeiting warning, and the year 1922 г. arranged along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pale brown tones and carries the same geometric border and guilloche framework as the obverse, with the complete obverse design showing through as a strong impression, indicating the note was printed on very thin paper with heavy ink penetration. The central area reproduces the numeral cartouche and surrounding text as a ghost image, while the overall surface remains largely unadorned with no distinct additional vignette or separate reverse design. |
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The Far Eastern Republic was a short-lived buffer state, established in 1920 at Soviet instigation to avoid direct confrontation with Japanese forces occupying the Russian Pacific coast. Its currency issues were pragmatic fictions — the state itself was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, the same year this note was printed. Whether significant quantities actually circulated before the FER's dissolution is doubtful.
The gold kopeck denomination was a deliberate signal: pegging the unit to a gold standard, at least nominally, was meant to inspire confidence in a region awash in competing currencies from White Army issues, Chinese notes, and Japanese military scrip. The gold peg was aspirational at best.