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5 Roubles Indochina Bank - Vladivostok, Specimen
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is centred on an oval vignette of a classical female bust in left-facing profile, wearing a Liberty cap and draped robes, flanked by ornate guilloche borders with large denomination numeral 5 at both left and right. BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE is inscribed in bold across the top, with SÉRIE A at upper left and right and zeroed serial number placeholders on either side. The lower portion carries the bilingual denomination ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ / CINQ ROUBLES, the place and date of issue VLADIVOSTOK, le 12 Février 1919, two signature lines, the American Bank Note Company imprint, and a bold red SPECIMEN overprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | ИНДО-КИТАЙСКІЙ БАНКЪ ВОЗМЕЩАЮТСЯ ДЕРЖАТЕЛЮ ВО ВЛАДИВОСТОКЕ ЗКИМЪ ИЛИ ПЕРЕВОДОМЪ НА ПАРИЖЪ ПО ШЕСТИДЕСЯТИ САНТИМОВЪ ЗА РУБЛЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ CINQ ROUBLES AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine's emergency Siberian issues of 1919 were produced at the direct request of French authorities supporting anti-Bolshevik forces in the Russian Far East. The bank operated a Vladivostok branch during the Allied intervention, and these rouble-denominated notes were a practical attempt to provide stable currency in a region where Kolchak's Provisional Government scrip was rapidly losing credibility.
ABNC produced the specimens in New York — the only surviving examples for most denominations in this series, as circulated notes saw brutal attrition during the chaotic Allied withdrawal of 1920–1922.