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50 Roubles Semireche Region
| Issuer | Semireche Region State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Large ornate numeral '50' at centre, flanked by decorative floral and foliate vignettes in the corners. Two columns of Cyrillic text appear to the left and right of the central denomination, with the value in words ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБ. inscribed along the lower margin. Signature lines for the Военный Комиссар and Комиссар Финансов appear at the bottom left and right respectively, with manuscript signatures above each title. |
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| Reverse description | A mounted horseman carrying a lance or banner gallops to the right across the lower left field, set against a sunburst radiating from the centre. The denomination '50 Р.' is rendered in large characters at centre, with a regional coat of arms vignette at the upper right. The header КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ runs along the top of the note. |
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The Semireche Region (Semirechye, or "Seven Rivers") in what is now southeastern Kazakhstan and northern Kyrgyzstan was one of the most isolated theaters of the Russian Civil War. Cut off from central Bolshevik supply lines and facing acute coin shortages, local Soviet authorities authorized their own provisional emissions in 1918 — a pattern repeated across dozens of peripheral regions simultaneously, producing the sprawling kategory of Russian Civil War locals that collectors now catalog under the "S" prefix.
Semireche issues are among the scarcer provincial emissions from this period, reflecting both low original print runs and high attrition in a region that changed hands repeatedly before Soviet consolidation.