50 kopecks — RSFSR (1918)
Special facts
American Bank Note is one of the oldest banknote companies in the world; before Russia it had printed money for dozens of countries.
Appearance
Fifty-kopeck credit note of 1918, American print. At the centre of the front the arms of the Provisional Government (a double-headed eagle without the symbols of tsarist power), the denomination repeated several times and below the inscription "ИМЕЮТЪ ХОЖДЕНIЕ НАРАВНЕ СЪ РАЗМЕННОЙ СЕРЕБРЯНОЙ МОНЕТОЙ". The back carries "50 КОПЕЕК" in large type on an ornamental ground, repeated several times, and "ПОДДЕЛКА БИЛЕТА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ". Size 93 × 56 mm. The only denomination part of which reached Omsk; in circulation in Siberia from 1919. Specimens with the overprint "SPECIMEN" are known, in large and small lettering.
About the period
The credit notes of 1918–1919 were ordered in America by the Provisional Government, but it was the authorities of Siberia and the Far East that received them. More about the period “ABNC credit notes”, 1918 — 1919
Coins and banknotes of this year: 1918
Specifications
- Period
- ABNC credit notes
- Currency
- 1 ruble = 100 kopecks
- Issue type
- Circulation
- Material
- Paper
- Size
- 93.0 × 56.0 mm
- Issuer
- American Bank Note Company
- Security thread
- No
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