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5 Roubles Archangel - Red regime
| Issuer | Archangel Branch of the State Bank (Архангельское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in green on plain paper, with a decorative guilloche border and corner numerals '5'. The central panel carries Cyrillic text stating that the note is temporarily issued by the Archangel Branch of the State Bank and is obligatory for circulation within Archangel Province on par with credit notes. The bold legend 'ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ' arches across the upper portion, with 'АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ' in large block letters at centre-lower, and 'ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' repeated at top and bottom margins. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ Временно выпускается АРХАНГЕЛЬСКИМЪ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕМЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА и въ предѣлахъ Архангельской губерніи обязателенъ къ обращенію наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами. Подѣлка преслѣдуется закономъ. АРХАНГЕЛЬСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ |
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In the summer of 1918, Archangel was briefly held by anti-Bolshevik forces backed by Allied intervention, and the local State Bank branch found itself operating under White control with an acute shortage of usable currency. The S102 is one of several emergency issues produced to fill that gap — printed under severely constrained conditions, not in Petrograd or Moscow, but locally.
The "Red regime" designation in the catalog name refers to the color of the note, not its politics. This distinction trips up new collectors regularly.