Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Roubles Far Eastern Republic
| Issuer | Far Eastern Republic |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | P#S1203 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ДАЛЬНЕ-ВОСТОЧНОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ОБЕЗПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ УПРАВЛЯЮЩИЙ КАССИР |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА КРЕДИТНЫХ БИЛЕТОВ ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ПО ЗАКОНУ 1920 |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Far Eastern Republic was a nominally independent buffer state created by the Bolsheviks in April 1920 to avoid direct military confrontation with Japan in the Russian Far East. Its currency was politically convenient fiction — Moscow needed the FER to appear sovereign enough to negotiate with Tokyo, so it issued its own notes. This 5 Rouble belongs to the first emission of that short-lived apparatus.
The republic was absorbed into Soviet Russia in November 1922, less than three years after this note was printed. Circulation was chaotic throughout — the region simultaneously saw Tsarist-era Siberian notes, Kerensky-era issues, and various ataman scrip competing in local trade. Surviving examples frequently show heavy use or damage consistent with that inflationary, multi-currency environment.