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500 Roubles Orenburg
| Issuer | Orenburg Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК Оренбургского Отделения Государственного Банка. ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ Имеет хождение наравне с государственными кредитными билетами. Подделка преследуется законом. Управляющий Кассир Контролёр |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress on plain paper. At left, a vignette of two male youths, one standing and one seated on a plinth, with floral decorations below. Central text in large Cyrillic reads ПЯТЬСОТЪ РУБЛЕЙ, with the authority notice ВЫПУЩЕНЪ СЪ РАЗРЕШЕНIЯ МЕСТНОЙ ВЛАСТИ below, and a smaller line stating redeemability against state credit notes. At right, an ornate rectangular guilloche frame encloses the denomination ПЯТЬ СОТЪ РУБЛЕЙ and the numeral 500. The year 1918 appears in manuscript at lower centre. |
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The Orenburg Branch of the State Bank issued local currency in 1918 under extraordinarily unstable conditions — the city changed hands multiple times during the Civil War, passing between Bolshevik forces and the Orenburg Cossack Host under Ataman Dutov. Notes issued here were effectively regional emergency money, their authority dependent entirely on whoever controlled the city at the moment of issue.
Pick S983 falls within the broader category of provisional South Russian and Ural issues, most of which had very short effective circulation windows before political collapse rendered them worthless. Survivors are frequently found in poor condition precisely because no one had reason to preserve them.