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5 Roubles Orenburg
| Issuer | Orenburg Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large guilloche underprint of the Cyrillic text ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ (Five Roubles) in pale tint across the centre, with the year 1917 at the top. A multi-line Russian inscription in the centre records the authorisation by the Military Government of the Orenburg Cossack Host, the Orenburg Provincial Zemstvo, and the Orenburg Provincial Commissar of the Provisional Government. The denomination ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is repeated below the text block, with a repeated border legend ПЯТЬ РУБ. running along all four margins. |
| Reverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБ. ПЯТЬ РУБ. ПЯТЬ РУБ. ПЯТЬ РУБ. 1917 ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Выдаеть по постановленiю Войскового Правительства Оренбургскаго казачьяго войска Оренбургскаго Губернскаго Земства и Оренбургскаго Губернскаго Комиссара Временнаго Правительства Подлежитъ обмѣну на государственные кредитные билеты ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ |
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Orenburg's State Bank branch began issuing its own provisional currency in 1917 as central authority collapsed and the Provisional Government struggled to keep paper money flowing to the provinces. These regional emissions were stopgap instruments, authorized locally and often printed under improvised conditions — not products of the established St. Petersburg printing apparatus.
The Orenburg notes occupy an awkward cataloguing space: issued by a branch of a still-nominally-functioning institution, yet effectively local scrip. By late 1918 the city had changed hands between Red and White forces multiple times, and whatever stocks remained in circulation were rendered worthless in rapid succession by competing monetary authorities.