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90 Roubles Irkutsk
| Issuer | Irkutsk Government |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 90 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | СЕРІЯ НОМЕР 4 РУБЛЯ 50 КОП. |
| Reverse description | The reverse of the uncut sheet presents twenty coupon reverses in a corresponding 4×5 grid, each printed in red-brown on a pale ground with an ornate guilloche cartouche at center enclosing the individual coupon number in large serif numerals. The surrounding border consists of fine lathe-work ornamental patterns typical of security printing of the period. |
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The 90-rouble denomination is the oddity here. It corresponds to a 180-rouble annual salary installment divided by two — a figure tied to specific civil service pay scales under the Provisional Government period, when regional administrations were scrambling to meet payroll with whatever printing capacity they could access. That the Irkutsk Government turned to the American Bank Note Company in New York rather than Petrograd reflects the near-total collapse of centralized supply lines east of the Urals by late 1917.
ABNC had long supplied securities and currency to Tsarist Russia. The relationship made the contract plausible even under revolutionary conditions.