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50 Kopecks Altai
| Issuer | Altai Gubernia Treasury |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on pink underprint, with a hand-applied control stamp at lower left. The note exhibits three or four perforated edges, characteristic of emergency local issues of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale paper reverse printed with Cyrillic text arranged in horizontal registers, including the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions. The design is typographically simple, consistent with the utilitarian character of provincial Civil War-era emergency currency. |
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Altai Gubernia — centered on Barnaul — was one of several Siberian administrative regions that found itself issuing local scrip during the monetary chaos of the early Soviet period, when central currency supply was simply inadequate for day-to-day commerce at the regional level. The S1265A is among the more obscure issues in the Siberian catalog, with documented survivor populations thin enough that attribution and condition assessment remain ongoing in specialist literature.
The perforation as the sole security feature reflects the bare-bones production circumstances — not a deliberate design choice but a practical constraint.