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500 Roubles Kamchatka
| Issuer | Kamchatka Regional Soviet of National Economy (Камчатский Областной Совет Народного Хозяйства) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design with a fine guilloche border running along all four edges. The issuer's name, Камчатский Областной Совет Народного Хозяйства, appears across the top, with the denomination numerals 500 in each upper corner and within two rectangular panels at centre left and right. The large Cyrillic text КРЕДИТНЫЙ ЗНАК / ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ occupies the centre field, below which a validity clause states circulation until 1 June 1920 and exchangeability for general Russian credit notes. Three signature lines for the Chairman of the Soviet, the Deputy Commissar of Finance, and the Treasurer appear at the foot, with the year 1920 in a rectangular cartouche at bottom centre. |
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| Reverse description | Light geometric guilloche underprint covers the entire surface. A central vignette of the Russian imperial-style civic coat of arms is positioned at the centre of the note. The denomination 500 appears in large bold numerals to the left and right of the arms, each flanked above and below by the word РУБЛЕЙ. The vertical side margins carry the words РОССИЙСКАЯ ФЕДЕРАТИВНАЯ on the right and РЕСПУБЛИКА СОВЕТСКАЯ on the left, reading upward. A text clause above the central arms restricts circulation to Kamchatka Oblast, while a counterfeiting warning is printed below the vignette. |
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The Kamchatka Regional Soviet of National Economy issued this note during a period when Bolshevik administrative control over the Russian Far East was, in practice, tenuous at best. Kamchatka in 1920 was effectively cut off from central monetary supply — White forces, Japanese military presence, and the sheer geography of the peninsula created conditions where local bodies had little choice but to print their own emergency obligations.
P#S1273 belongs to a series of provisional issues that circulated among a tiny, isolated population. Surviving examples are genuinely scarce, reflecting both the small original print run and the remote conditions under which these notes were produced and used.