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90 Roubles Irkutsk
| Issuer | Irkutsk City Administration |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 90 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Uncut sheet of twenty coupons arranged in a 4x5 grid, each coupon printed in black on white paper with Cyrillic text blocks indicating series, номер (number) 2035, and denomination 4 рубля 50 коп. Each coupon bears a date at the top (ranging from 16 августа 1920 года to 16 февраля 1928 года), sequential coupon numbers (1–20) printed in the lower corners, and text relating to the 90-rouble Irkutsk loan obligation. The sheet is framed with a fine ornamental guilloche border and decorative corner vignettes. |
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| Obverse lettering | СЕРІЯ НОМЕР 2035 4 РУБ. 50 КОП. САНС 43 16 АВГУСТА 1920 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1921 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1921 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1922 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1922 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1923 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1923 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1924 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1924 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1925 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1925 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1926 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1926 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1927 ГОДА 16 АВГУСТА 1927 ГОДА 16 ФЕВРАЛЯ 1928 ГОДА |
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The 90-rouble denomination is the immediate giveaway: this note was designed specifically to represent one-tenth of a 900-rouble bond, a denomination structure used by several Siberian local authorities during the currency chaos following the February Revolution. Irkutsk, effectively cut off from the Petrograd financial system by distance and political disorder, issued its own obligations rather than wait for central supply that wasn't coming.
The American Bank Note Company contract is the genuinely interesting detail here. That a Siberian city administration was commissioning emergency currency from a New York printer in 1917 tells you everything about how fractured Russian financial infrastructure had become — and how much trust ABNC's reputation commanded even in those circumstances.