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50 Kopecks Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan District (Туркестанский Край) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette consists of the Soviet-style arms of the Turkestan region, incorporating a hammer and sickle device, set within an ornate cartouche at the upper centre of the note. The denomination numeral '50' appears in large figures to the left and right of the arms, with horizontal guilloche wave patterns filling the background across the entire field. A decorative border frames the note, with the issuing authority inscription in Cyrillic arranged in a cartouche at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 КОП. КОП 50 50 КОП ПОДДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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The Turkestan District issued its own provisional notes in 1918 as the region's administration fractured under the pressures of the Russian Civil War and the short-lived Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Republic. Cut off from central Bolshevik financial infrastructure and facing a near-total collapse of the coin supply, local authorities resorted to emergency scrip to keep commerce functioning at all. Small denominations bore the brunt of circulation demand and were handled constantly — surviving examples in clean condition are genuinely uncommon.
The S1161 series was typographically simple, almost austere, produced under conditions where sophisticated printing equipment simply wasn't available.