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5 Roubles Barnaul; PoW Camp
| Issuer | Barnaul Prisoner of War Camp |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper (textured paper left over from the Imperial era) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 FÜNF RUBEL 1919 BARNAUL KRIEGSGEFANGENENLAGER (Translation: Five roubles. Barnaul prisoner of war camp.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on recycled Imperial-era paper stock, the upper edge retaining a partial multicolour decorative underprint with ornate floral and foliate vignettes in red, green, blue, and yellow — remnants of the original Imperial document. The remainder of the field is unprinted, leaving the aged cream paper exposed. |
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The Barnaul PoW camp scrip of 1919 sits in one of the more chaotic corners of Russian monetary history — the Civil War period when dozens of local authorities, military commands, and improvised administrations issued their own paper simply because no functioning central supply existed. This particular note was produced for internal camp use, giving the camp administration control over prisoner purchasing power and limiting what could be spent, saved, or smuggled.
The textured Imperial-era paper stock is the detail that matters most here. It was not chosen for quality — it was whatever was at hand in Barnaul in 1919, a city that changed hands repeatedly between Bolshevik and White Army forces during that period.