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5 Roubles Khabarovsk District
| Issuer | Authorized Representative of the Minister of Supply and Food of the Khabarovsk District |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | УПОЛНОМОЧЕННЫЙ Министра Снабженія и Продовольствія по Хабаровскому Району. ВРЕМЕННАЯ КВИТАНЦІЯ. Предъявитель настоящей квитанціи имѣетъ получить изъ продовольственной лавки продуктовъ на Пять рублей. Серія 1 Б. 1919 г. Уполномоченный Старшій Бухгалтеръ Кассиръ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is a mirror impression of the obverse text printed through the paper, appearing as a laterally reversed ghost image in pale grey tones, a characteristic of the single-sided letterpress production method used for this emergency issue. The same rectangular border with corner numeral-5 ornaments is visible. A small rectangular stamp impression appears at lower left. |
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This note was issued during the chaotic White movement administration of the Russian Far East in 1919, when the Khabarovsk District fell under the authority of Kolchak's government. The "Authorized Representative of the Minister of Supply and Food" designation points to a purely utilitarian origin — this was commissariat scrip, issued to keep local procurement and ration systems functioning when conventional currency supply from Omsk was unreliable.
The Far Eastern White administrations produced an extraordinary proliferation of local and quasi-local issues in 1919, and many were repudiated or simply abandoned within months as the front collapsed. Survival rates vary sharply across the series — some denominations of these district supply issues are genuinely scarce; others surface with regularity from old Harbin and Shanghai émigré collections.