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50 Roubles - Perforated North Russia - Chaikovskiy Government
| Issuer | Provisional Government of the Northern Region (Chaikovskiy Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Tsar Nicholas I within an ornate oval vignette at left, inscribed НИКОЛАЙ below. The Imperial double-headed eagle appears at upper right, with the denomination ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ in large Cyrillic lettering across the centre. Date 1899 at lower left; guilloche underprint with the numeral 50 at lower right; cancellation perforations visible through the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ НИКОЛАЙ 1899 Государственный Банкъ размѣниваетъ кредитные билеты на золотую монету безъ ограниченія суммы Управляющій Кассиръ |
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The Chaikovskiy Government — the Provisional Government of the Northern Region based at Arkhangelsk — issued this note under Allied occupation, backed by British military and financial support following the 1918 intervention. Nikolai Chaikovsky, a veteran Socialist Revolutionary, lent his name to an administration that had almost no real fiscal infrastructure and depended on London to remain solvent.
The perforated examples of this series were cancelled by treasury or banking authorities, almost certainly during the chaotic withdrawal of Allied forces in late 1919 and early 1920. When the Bolsheviks retook Arkhangelsk in February 1920, whatever notes remained in official hands were rendered void — perforation being the quickest method of mass cancellation available.
Cancelled survivors are actually more historically legible than circulated examples.