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50 Roubles Nikolaevsk-on-Amur
| Issuer | Amgunskaya Zolotopromyshlennaya Kompaniya (Amgun Gold Mining Company) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset promissory transfer note (переводное письмо) produced by letterpress in black ink on plain white paper, with no vignette, guilloche, or decorative underprint of any kind. The upper register carries the issuer's name in Cyrillic type alongside a serial number at left and the denomination numeral at right, beneath which a manuscript date of 1920 is inserted. The lower portion contains handwritten text directing payment through the Nikolaevsk branch of the Russo-Asiatic Bank, completed by three manuscript signatures and a circular official blue ink stamp at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | АМГУНСКАЯ ЗОЛОТОПРОМЫШЛЕННАЯ КОМПАНИЯ. ПЕРЕВОДНОЕ ПИСЬМО Прискового Управления. №2341 Руб. 50 Выдано октября 20 дня 1920 года. Пятьдесят рублей Председатель Главноуправляющий Бухгалтер КАЗНАЧЕЙ |
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The Amgun Gold Mining Company operated in one of the most remote corners of the Russian Far East, and its 1920 scrip issue was a direct response to the complete collapse of reliable currency supply during the Civil War period. With Kolchak's forces disintegrating and Bolshevik control not yet consolidated, the Nikolaevsk-on-Amur region was effectively cut off from any functioning monetary authority — local enterprises issued their own obligations simply to keep wage payments and trade moving.
The March 1920 Nikolaevsk Incident, in which Bolshevik partisan forces under Yakov Tryapitsyn massacred much of the town's population and subsequently burned it, would have destroyed most circulating scrip of this type outright. Survivors were few; so are these notes.