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50 Roubles Kuban Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Provisional Government of Russia (Займъ Свободы) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Entirely text-based reverse printed in black on light guilloche underprint, divided into bordered panels. The heading 1917 * ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ * 1917 is repeated at top and bottom, with dense Cyrillic text setting out the full terms and conditions of the Liberty Loan, issued by decree of the Provisional Government dated 27 March 1917. A final line indicates the date of the last coupon: Срокъ последняго купона 16 марта 1922 года, with the signature of the Управляющій Государственною Коммиссіею Погашенія Долговъ and a Бухгалтеръ. |
| Reverse lettering | 1917 * ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ * 1917 Срокъ последняго купона 16 марта 1922 года. Управляющій Государственною Коммиссіею Погашенія Долговъ Бухгалтеръ |
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The "Займъ Свободы" — Liberty Loan — notes were authorized by the Provisional Government in the spring of 1917 as a fundraising instrument to keep Russia in the First World War, not as conventional currency. The public was invited to subscribe; the notes functioned as bearer bonds rather than banknotes proper, carrying a 5% interest rate.
The Kuban attribution on S493 reflects post-October redistribution: these notes circulated across multiple breakaway and regional authorities after the Bolshevik seizure of power, with the Kuban region among several that accepted and restamped or simply used surviving Provisional Government paper. The original issue predates the political fragmentation that gives the series its catalog complexity.