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1 Rouble Latvia, Libava, Libau
| Issuer | City Government of Libava (Либавское Городское Самоуправление) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Size | 106 × 56 mm |
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| Obverse description | The municipal arms of Libava (Liepāja) are centred on the note, with the numeral denomination «1» in each corner. The issuing authority's name appears along the top edge above the arms, with the full obligation text arranged in the body of the note in Cyrillic letterpress. The denomination is also expressed in abbreviated Latin script at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Либавское Городское Самоуправление ОБЯЗУЕТСЯ ОПЛАТИТЬ НАСТОЯЩУЮ ДОЛГОВУЮ РАСПИСКУ НЕМЕДЛЕННО ПОСЛЕ ОКОНЧАНIИ ВОЙНЫ 1 Руб. ПОДДЪЛКА КАРАЕТСЯ ПО УГОЛОВНЫМЪ ЗАКОНАМЪ. 1 Rbl. (Translation: Libava City Government. [The government is] obliged to pay the debt banknote immediately after the end of the war. 1 Rub. Forgery is punished under criminal law.) |
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Libava — today's Liepāja — issued emergency municipal currency in 1915 as the Russian Imperial government's supply of small coinage collapsed under wartime conditions. The Libau series was one of dozens of such notgeld-type instruments that appeared across the Baltic provinces that year, but Libava's civic administration moved early, and these notes circulated alongside Russian Imperial rubles in a port city that was simultaneously being prepared for German assault.
The city fell to German forces in May 1915. Notes issued that spring had a circulation window measured in weeks.