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50 Kopecks Amur Region
| Issuer | Amur Regional Zemstvo |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Central arms vignette at upper centre within an ornate cartouche, with the Cyrillic inscription of the Amur Regional Zemstvo above and the denomination 'ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ КОПѢЕКЪ' (Fifty Kopecks) in large letterpress text below. A further inscription at the foot cites the legal authority for issue, referencing Article 5, Clause 2 of the Law of 17 June 1917. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 |
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The Amur Regional Zemstvo issued these small-denomination notes during the chaotic post-February Revolution period, when the collapse of central monetary authority left Siberian and Far Eastern administrations scrambling to produce their own local substitutes. Zemstvo-issued currency from this region is among the more geographically remote of all Russian Civil War-era local issues — the Amur basin was thousands of miles from any major printing facility, which shows in the production quality.
These notes circulated alongside an extraordinary tangle of competing currencies: Kerensky notes, Siberian government issues, Japanese military scrip, and Chinese copper cash. Survival rates are low partly because of the region's eventual absorption into Soviet administrative control and the subsequent currency suppressions of the early 1920s.