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50 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Russian State Treasury (Государственное Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | Entirely text-based design within a decorative foliate border, with the denomination numeral 50 at each outer corner. The upper portion carries the heading Положеніе о разрядѣ (серіи) билетовъ Государственнаго Казначейства за № CDXLII (442), followed by nine numbered regulatory paragraphs in small Cyrillic letterpress text set in two columns detailing the terms and conditions of the bond issue. A bold single-line inscription at the foot reads ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТЪ ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТАГО ГОДА, with the series designation СЕРІЯ CDXLII (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА СОРОКЪ ВТОРАЯ) centred below. |
| Reverse lettering | Положеніе о разрядѣ (серіи) билетовъ Государственнаго Казначейства за № CDXLII (442) ПРОЦЕНТЫ НАЧИСЛЯЮТСЯ С 1 АВГУСТА ТЫСЯЧА ДЕВЯТЬСОТЪ ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТАГО ГОДА СЕРІЯ CDXLII (ЧЕТЫРЕСТА СОРОКЪ ВТОРАЯ) |
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The Samara Directory notes are a specific category of Russian Civil War-era provisional issues — not products of 1914 monetary policy despite the printed date. The "1914" refers to the underlying State Treasury obligation design borrowed for the series, not to the year of actual issue. These notes circulated in the Volga region under the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (Komuch), the short-lived anti-Bolshevik government that controlled Samara from June to October 1918 before being displaced by Kolchak's forces.
Komuch overprinted or adapted existing treasury forms precisely because they lacked printing infrastructure. The borrowed date caused persistent confusion among both contemporaries and later cataloguers.