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5 Roubles Amur Railway
| Issuer | Chief Food Committee of the Amur Railway (Главный Продовольственный Комитет Амурской Железной Дороги) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 1919 годъ АВАНСОВАЯ КАРТОЧКА ГЛАВНАГО ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННАГО КОМИТЕТА Амурской желѣзной дороги Ж. НА ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ. № Предъявитель сей карточки имѣетъ право на получение товаровъ изъ магазиновъ продовольственныхъ комитетовъ на (5) р. Председатель Гл. Прод. К-та Казначей Бухгалтеръ |
| Reverse description | A central vignette of a steam locomotive in left-facing profile occupies the upper portion, set within a plain field bounded by a fine decorative frame with cross ornaments at the corners; two circular purple control stamps are applied over the vignette area. A block of smaller Cyrillic text in the lower half sets out the conditions under which advance cards are to be exchanged for monetary signs by the Chief Food Committee and the line food committees. |
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The Amur Railway food committee notes belong to a chaotic window in Russian Civil War history when dozens of local military, municipal, and administrative bodies across Siberia and the Far East issued their own scrip simply to keep operations running. The Chief Food Committee issued these not as a banking instrument but as a wage and provisioning token — the railway workforce needed to be paid in something, and Kolchak's official Omsk notes were unreliable in supply and often distrusted at the local level.
S1253 is one of the more obscure Far Eastern railway issues; documentation on print runs and redemption history is genuinely sparse.