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5 Rubli Łódź

Issuer Urząd Starszych Zgromadzenia Kupców m. Łodzi i Komitet Giełdowy Łódzki
Year 1915
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Obverse description Printed in blue on a fine guilloche underprint, the obverse carries the large bold denomination title PIĘĆ RUBLI at the top, with a central oval vignette enclosing the numeral 5 flanked by heraldic lion supporters and an explanatory text panel in Polish. The series designation Serja A appears at upper left, with the serial number printed in red at upper right, and multiple facsimile signatures of the issuing merchant and exchange committee authorities arranged in two columns in the lower half.
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Reverse lettering Нижепоименованныя учрежденiя уплотят предъявителю въ своихъ кассахъ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ черезъ три мѣсяца послѣ подписанiя договора о мирѣ. Боны обезпечены болѣе чѣмъ въ двойномъ размѣрѣ цѣнностями, хранящимися въ банкахъ. Управа старшинъ лодзинскаго купеческаго общества: К.Эйзертъ, Э.Гейманъ, К.В.Шейблертъ Лодзинскiй биржевой комитетъ: Др. I. Коницъ, Др. А. Бидерманъ, М. Кернбаумъ Пять 5 рубл. Серiя А Удостовѣряемъ, что упомянутое обезпеченiе хранится у насъ. Торговый банкъ въ Лодзи Я. Петтерсъ, И. Зандъ. Лодзинскiй купеческiй банкъ Э. Веверъ, З. Конъ Эмиссiя 5ти рублевыхъ боновъ установлена на собранiи управы старшинъ купеческаго общества и биржеваго комитета 13 марта 1915 г.
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Łódź's twin merchant institutions — the Elders of the Merchants' Assembly and the Łódź Exchange Committee — issued this note jointly during the German occupation of 1915, when the collapse of the Russian Imperial ruble left the city's commercial infrastructure functionally without a working currency. These bodies had no formal monetary authority; the issue was a practical improvisation by the textile trade establishment, not a governmental act.

Łódź was then the most industrialized city in the Russian partition, its weaving mills still limping toward output despite wartime dislocation. The merchants who signed off on this emission were buying time for trade to continue at all.