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5 Kopecks Priamur Region
| Issuer | Priamur Regional Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | A double-headed eagle vignette is centred at the top within a circular frame, flanked by a ribbon scroll bearing the Cyrillic inscription РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЗНАК. The denomination numeral 5 appears in large bold letterpress at left and right, with ПЯТЬ КОПЕКЪ set across the centre field against a salmon-toned guilloche underprint enclosed by an ornate geometric border. Two lines of smaller text below state the note's equivalence to credit billets of 1918, with an anti-counterfeiting warning along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЗНАКЪ ПЯТЬ КОПЕКЪ ИМЕТЬ ХОЖДЕНИЕ НАРАВН С КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ ОБРАЗЦА 1918 ГОДА. ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ. |
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The Priamur Regional Government was one of several anti-Bolshevik administrations that emerged in the Russian Far East following the October Revolution, issuing its own fractional currency out of sheer necessity — small-denomination coinage had virtually disappeared from circulation by 1918, hoarded or melted down as the political situation collapsed. These low-value notes were stopgap instruments, printed locally under difficult conditions, and intended to keep daily commerce functioning in a region thousands of kilometers from any central authority.
Survival rates for this denomination are low. Fractional notes of this type were used hard and discarded without sentiment.