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10 Roubles Latvia, Libava, Libau
| Issuer | Libauische Stadtverwaltung (City Administration of Libau/Liepāja) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 Rubel Libauische Stadt-Verwaltung 10 Rubel Die Libauische Stadtverwaltung verpflichtet sich diesen Schuldenschein sofort nach Kriegsschluss einzulösen. Fälschungen werden straftätig verfolgt. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 Rubel Libauische Stadt-Verwaltung 10 Rubel Die Libauische Stadtverwaltung verpflichtet sich diesen Schuldenschein sofort nach Kriegsschluss einzulösen. Fälschungen werden straftätig verfolgt. |
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Libau — today's Liepāja — was occupied by German forces in May 1915, but this note was issued by the city's own administration before the German takeover, as Russian Imperial authority collapsed across the Baltic littoral under the pressure of the summer offensives. Municipal emergency money of this kind filled the vacuum left by the flight of Russian state institutions and the near-total disappearance of metal coin from circulation.
The rubel denomination is telling — the city was still legally within the Russian monetary system at the moment of printing, even as that system was ceasing to function locally.