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50 Kopecks With signature, Priamur Region
| Issuer | Priamur Regional Government |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in orange-brown on plain paper, the face is dominated by the large denomination numeral '50' at centre, set within an elaborate guilloche rosette and surrounded by intricate lathe-work underprint filling the entire field. The pre-reform Cyrillic inscription КОПѢЕКЪ appears beneath the central numeral, with the anti-counterfeiting legend ПОДѢЛКА БИЛЕТА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ below it, while two manuscript signatures appear at lower left and lower right above the printed titles УПРАВЛЯЮЩІЙ and КАССИРЪ respectively. Corner numeral '50' panels are repeated within the decorative border frame. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in orange-brown, the reverse is centred on a Republican-style double-headed eagle vignette rendered without imperial crown, flanked on each side by large pointed cartouches enclosing the numeral '50'. The inscription КОПѢЕКЪ appears in a decorative ribbon below the eagle, with the circulation guarantee text ИМѢЮТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ НАРАВНѢ СЪ РАЗМѢННОЙ СЕРЕБРЯНОЙ МОНЕТОЙ running along the lower margin within the border frame. Corner numeral '50' panels are repeated at each angle of the surrounding guilloche border. |
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The Priamur Regional Government was one of several competing anti-Bolshevik administrations operating in the Russian Far East during the Civil War, its authority extending across a thin corridor of territory around Vladivostok and the Amur basin. Small-denomination notes like this 50 Kopeck issue were critical for daily transactions in a region where Bolshevik, Japanese, American, and White Russian interests were all physically present and each backed different paper.
The signature variant is significant — Priamur issues appear with multiple signatories reflecting the government's short and turbulent tenure, and attribution to a specific official can help narrow the window of actual issue within 1919.