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500 Roubles Second Siberian Provisional Administration
| Issuer | Siberian Provisional Government (State Treasury of Siberia) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Срокъ 1 Ноября 1919 г. Руб. 500. 5% краткосрочное обязательство Государственнаго Казначейства Сибири. Предъявителю сего уплачивается 1 Ноября 1919 года пятьсотъ рублей въ Государственномъ Банкѣ Сибири и его Отдѣленіяхъ. Директоръ Отдѣла Государственнаго Казначейства Сибири Начальникъ Бухгалтерскаго Отдѣленія Бухгалтеръ Омскъ, 1 Ноября 1918 г. Bons du Trésor de Sibérie de CINQ CENTS roubles Remboursable le 1 Novembre 1919 Treasury Bill of Siberia of FIVE HUNDRED roubles Payable on 1 November 1919 |
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| Protection description | Intricate geometric guilloche underprint on both obverse and reverse, with an all-over repeating floral and star lattice pattern on the reverse. |
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The Siberian Provisional Government at Omsk was one of several competing anti-Bolshevik administrations printing their own currency in 1918, and the State Treasury notes reflect the improvised urgency of that situation. Printing was done locally at Omsk rather than abroad — a necessity, not a choice, given the Civil War's disruption of normal supply chains to European printers.
The guilloche underprint is competent but clearly the work of a regional facility working at the edge of its technical capacity. Within months, the Omsk government would be superseded by Kolchak's All-Russian Provisional Government, and this specific issuing authority ceased to exist by late 1918.