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5 Roubles Revenue Stamp - Type 2
| Issuer | Chita Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a decorated border frame enclosing the central text area. A fiscal revenue stamp of 5 roubles is affixed directly onto the face of the note, serving as the denomination indicator. An inked oval cancellation stamp of the Chita Branch of the State Bank is applied over the note to authenticate its validity as a circulating currency substitute. |
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| Obverse lettering | (Note) ЧИТИНСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ Государственнаго Банка. Имеет хождение наравне с кредитными билетами в пределах Забайкальской области. (Paper Stamp) Гербовая марки 5 рубля 5 (Ink stamp) Читинское Отделение Государственного Банка (Translation: (Note) CHITA BRANCH OF THE STATE BANK. Valid for use in the Baikal region on a par with banknotes. (Paper Stamp) Revenue Stamp 5 roubles 5 (Ink stamp) Chita Branch of the State Bank) |
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Chita's State Bank branch began issuing provisional currency in 1918 as Transbaikalia dissolved into competing White, Red, and Japanese-backed factions. These revenue stamp notes — overprinted or repurposed fiscal material pressed into monetary service — were a direct product of that administrative collapse, with no functional connection to Petrograd by the time they circulated.
Type 2 distinguishes this from an earlier overprint variant, the differences typically involving the stamp impression or validation text rather than the underlying fiscal paper itself. Supply chains for proper banknote stock were simply not operating in eastern Siberia in 1918.