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5 Gold Roubles Yakutia
| Issuer | Narodny Komissariat Torgovli i Promyshlennosti (People's Commissariat of Trade and Industry), Yakut ASSR |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Value | 5 Gold Roubles |
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| Obverse description | A five-pointed red star divides the year 1924 at upper centre, flanked by the denomination «5 РУБЛЕЙ» repeated on both sides. The large central text «БОН» appears in bold Cyrillic lettering, with the word «ЗОЛОТОМ» (gold) printed to each side. Below, the full institutional title «Народного Комиссариата торговли и промышленности» is set in a plain sans-serif typeface, followed by a serial number and manuscript signature lines for the Narkom Torgovli and Glavny Bukhgalter. A simple guilloche border with foliate corner ornaments frames the note, with the denomination «ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ» along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | №1859 Серия В Бон Народного Комиссариата Торговли и Промышленности РАВЕН ПЯТИ РУБ. ЗОЛ. 5 5 Обесп... наличными товарами, из'ятыми из оборотного фонда НКТП находятся под непосредственным контролем СНК НAССР. ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ |
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The Yakut ASSR gold rouble notes of 1924 are among the most geographically isolated emergency issues of the early Soviet period. Yakutia had been effectively cut off from central monetary supply by distance, infrastructure collapse, and the lingering disruption of anti-Bolshevik resistance — the region only came under firm Soviet control in 1923 after years of armed conflict. The People's Commissariat of Trade and Industry stepped in as issuer because normal banking infrastructure simply did not exist yet.
Printed locally in Yakutsk rather than by any central Soviet facility, production quality reflects what was available on the ground. The gold rouble denomination was nominally tied to the chervonets reform then underway across the USSR, lending the note a theoretical stability its primitive printing circumstances did not really support.