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80 Roubles Khabarovsk
| Issuer | Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a blue guilloche border frame with blue or green underprint. The note is formatted as a cheque order, bearing the heading of the Khabarovsk Branch of the State Bank (ХАБАРОВСКОГО ОТДЕЛЕНИЯ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО БАНКА) and the denomination 80 roubles, with hand-written date and amount inscribed in the designated fields. A serial number appears in the upper left, and the text of the cheque order runs across the centre, valid for ten days from date of issue as stated in the surrounding border inscription. |
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| Reverse lettering | ИМЕЕТЪ ПРАВО ПОЛЬЗОВАТЬСЯ ДЕНЕЖНЫМИ ВЗНОСАМИ СЪ УСЛОВНАГО ТЕКУЩАГО СЧЕТОМЪ |
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The 80-rouble denomination is the immediate giveaway here. Round figures meant nothing to the regional issuers scrambling to fill the currency void left by the collapse of the imperial banking system — they printed what denominations the arithmetic of local wages and prices demanded, or what the available paper stock could accommodate. Khabarovsk, isolated in the Russian Far East and effectively cut off from Petrograd by the chaos of civil war, was operating on improvisation.
The "M" suffix in Pick's reference designates this as a mule or variant — worth scrutinizing the serial block and overprint details against confirmed examples, as several Khabarovsk issues of this period involved reprinted or surcharged stocks.