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500 Roubles Second Provisional Siberian Administration
| Issuer | Provisional Siberian Administration |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | A 5% short-term State Treasury obligation (краткосрочное обязательство Государственного Казначейства) with the Imperial arms vignette at left within an ornate vertical cartouche, the denomination '500' printed vertically along the left margin. The central text field carries Cyrillic inscriptions confirming payment of five hundred roubles to the bearer on 1 July 1920 at the State Bank and its branches, with manuscript signatures of the Director of the State Finance Department and the Head of the Accounting Section below. The series prefix and serial number appear at lower left, with the place and date of issue — Omsk, 1 July 1919 — noted at foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a uniform security underprint of fine geometric guilloche micropattern across the entire surface in pale green tones, with no additional vignettes, inscriptions, or ornamental devices. |
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The Provisional Siberian Administration under Admiral Kolchak produced this note during the White movement's brief period of institutional credibility — roughly the first half of 1919, before the Red Army's eastern offensives made the entire Omsk-based government's currency worthless within months. The S867 is the second of two 500-rouble types from this authority, distinguished from its predecessor primarily by printer variations and serial numbering conventions.
Kolchak's government was formally recognized by the other White factions as the supreme Russian authority in June 1919. By November, he had retreated from Omsk. Notes from this series circulated only briefly before being displaced by Soviet issues, which accounts for the relatively high survival rate in uncirculated condition — much of the print run never reached active use.