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50 Roubles Krasnoyarsk Territory
| Issuer | Krasnoyarsk Yenisei Society of Mutual Credit |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Light brown exchange cheque (разменный чек) printed in a single colour on plain paper. The heading РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЧЕКЪ is set in ornate letterpress at the top centre, with the denomination ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ inscribed in a central text band. The body of the note carries the issuing text in Cyrillic referring to the Krasnoyarsk Exchange Office, followed by printed signature lines for the Chairman of the Board, Board Members, Accountant and Cashier, with manuscript signatures affixed; the serial number appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same brown monochrome scheme and carries an elaborate botanical guilloche border of intertwined foliate scrollwork filling all four margins. The large numeral 50 appears in mirror-image guilloche at the left and right of centre, flanking a central circular underprint device. A block of Cyrillic text at upper right states the conditions of issue, and the issuer's name КРАСНОЯРСКОЕ ЕНИСЕЙСКОЕ О-ВО ВЗАИМН. КРЕДИТА runs in a horizontal band at both the top and bottom edges. |
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The Krasnoyarsk Yenisei Society of Mutual Credit was one of dozens of cooperative credit institutions across Siberia that stepped into the monetary vacuum left by the collapse of central authority during the Civil War. By 1919, the Kolchak government in Omsk nominally controlled much of western Siberia, but local issuers like this one were filling gaps that Omsk's own currency couldn't reliably cover at the regional level.
Mutual credit societies were legally permitted to issue short-term obligations, which gave their notes a quasi-legitimate status that outright emergency scrip lacked. That distinction mattered little by late 1919, when the White collapse rendered virtually all such paper worthless within months of issue.