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50 Roubles Second Siberian Provisional Administration
| Issuer | Provisional Government of Siberia (Omsk) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire face. At left, a vertical ornamental cartouche encloses a double-headed eagle vignette within an oval frame, flanked by the denomination numeral '50' in large letterpress. The central text field carries the treasury obligation legends in Cyrillic script, with trilingual side inscriptions in French and English along the vertical margins, and the issue date and place 'Омскъ 1 Февраля 1919 г.' at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely covered by a uniform fine guilloche lattice pattern printed in green on cream paper, without any text, vignette, or additional design elements. |
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The Provisional Government of Siberia — backed by Admiral Kolchak after his November 1918 coup against the Directory — issued this note as part of a broader effort to maintain a functioning monetary system across White-controlled territory. The Omsk administration was printing currency even as the Red Army steadily compressed its territorial hold, and by late 1919 the entire note-issuing apparatus had collapsed along with the government itself.
Pick S841 belongs to the "Second Siberian" series, distinguishing it from the earlier emissions under the SR-dominated Provisional Siberian Government. Inflation and military reversal meant most of these notes circulated hard and briefly before losing any practical value.