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500 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Provisional Government of Russia (Займъ Свободы / Liberty Loan) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely in letterpress text within a guilloche-bordered frame, headed by the date and title ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ flanked by the year 1917 on both sides. The body comprises dense paragraphs in Cyrillic script setting out the terms and conditions of the Liberty Loan bond, including interest payment schedules, redemption terms, and legal provisions. At the foot, a single manuscript signature of the State Debt Manager and the printed notation Срокъ послѣдняго купона 16 марта 1922 года appear above a repeated decorative title line. |
| Reverse lettering | 1917 * ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ * 1917 Срокъ послѣдняго купона 16 марта 1922 года Управляющій Государственнымъ Казначействомъ Бухгалтеръ |
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The so-called Samara Directory notes are among the more administratively tangled instruments of the Russian Civil War period. This 500 Rouble note belongs to the Займъ Свободы — Liberty Loan — bond series originally authorized by the Provisional Government in 1917 and printed in Petrograd before the Bolshevik coup. After October 1917, unissued stocks of these instruments circulated through successive anti-Bolshevik administrations across the Volga and Urals regions, with the Komuch government in Samara among those putting them into use.
The Pick S-prefix signals its classification as a regional issue, though the notes themselves bear no Samara overprint — attribution rests on distribution records and provenance rather than anything printed on the paper itself.