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5 Roubles Nikolsk-Ussuriisk
| Issuer | Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses, Nikolsk-Ussuriisk |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 5 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a bold rectangular panel at the top bearing the inscription ОРГАНИЗАЦІЯ КАЗЕННЫХЪ С.-Х. СКЛАДОВЪ in large block letters. Below this, a second panel reads ОРДЕРЪ НА 5 РУБЛЕЙ, followed by a block of smaller Cyrillic text setting out the terms of the order, valid for goods from the Primorsk, Amur and Sakhalin regions. The numeral '5' appears in circular medallions at left and right, and the overall layout is framed by a guilloche border of repeating ornamental motifs. |
| Reverse lettering | ОРГАНИЗАЦІЯ КАЗЕННЫХЪ С.-Х. СКЛАДОВЪ ОРДЕРЪ НА 5 РУБЛЕЙ 1919 |
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Nikolsk-Ussuriisk sits in Primorsky Krai, near the Manchurian border, and in 1919 it was contested territory — nominally under White Army control but practically administered by a patchwork of local bodies trying to keep commerce moving during the Russian Civil War. The Organisation of State Agricultural Warehouses was not a bank. It was a grain storage authority, and the fact that it was printing circulating currency says everything about how thoroughly the conventional monetary system had collapsed in the Russian Far East.
Notes of this type are sometimes called "commodity money" — not backed by gold or government promise, but implicitly tied to the warehouse's physical stores. Whether that backing was honored in practice is another matter entirely.