100 Roubles, City of Zhitomir, 1919

This copy

Accession

OM-00090

Serial

АБ 491965

Series year

1919

Actually issued

1919

manager

Vasilyev (Васильевъ) probable

Engraved facsimile, identical across the Zhitomir notes.

cashier

not read uncertain

Handwritten facsimile; not resolved to a name.

Grade

F (IBNS)

Moderate wear. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$6.5 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

153 × 89.7 mm (±0.6, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarMunicipal issueUkraine

The type

Type

100 Roubles, City of Zhitomir, 1919

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — what stands behind it

Все выпущенные в обращение разменные билеты сполна обеспечены Государственными кредитными билетами и 5% краткосрочными обязательствами Государственного Казначейства, хранящимися в Житомирском Отделении Народного Банка

All small-change notes issued into circulation are fully secured by State Credit Notes and 5% short-term Treasury obligations held at the Zhitomir Office of the People's Bank

Symbology

City arms

Municipal heraldry in place of state arms.

What was happening

Municipal money. When the state stopped supplying currency, cities printed their own against deposits held at the local branch of the State Bank — and said so in the small print, because acceptance depended entirely on people believing that sentence.

Odessa, Zhitomir, Elisavetgrad and dozens of other towns issued these between 1917 and 1920, through repeated changes of occupying power. Some carry Ukrainian text and the karbovanets denomination, some Russian and roubles, depending on who held the city when the plates were cut.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 100 Roubles, City of Zhitomir, 1919 in the collection.