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5000 Roubles Samara Directory
| Issuer | Provisional Government of Russia (Займъ Свободы / Liberty Loan) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the State Duma building in Moscow with colonnaded facade and dome, set within a decorative frame of foliate branches, at upper centre. The heading reads «ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ» (Liberty Loan) in bold letterpress, below which the obligation is described as a 5% bond «ВЪ ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ» (Five Thousand Roubles). Serial number appears at upper left and right within the IV series designation, and the document bears multiple manuscript signatures of Provisional Government ministers above the Petrograd date of 27 March 1917. |
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| Obverse lettering | ЗАЕМЪ СВОБОДЫ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ДУМА 5% ОБЛИГАЦІЯ ВЪ ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧЪ РУБЛЕЙ нарицательныхъ IV серія №014683 Министръ-Председатель Петроградъ, 27 марта 1917 года |
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The Samara Directory notes occupy an odd corner of the Russian Civil War paper money story. The "Займъ Свободы" — Liberty Loan — bonds were originally issued by the Provisional Government in 1917 to finance continued participation in the First World War. When the Bolsheviks seized power, these instruments lost their official standing, but the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly (Komuch), which briefly controlled Samara from June to October 1918, authorized their use as circulating currency by cutting the bond sheets into individual coupons.
Komuch fell to Kolchak's forces before any alternative monetary system could be established.