1902年俄国庚款变现公债一组3枚，包括500卢布两枚及100马克一枚，F至VF；1902 4% Russian State Loan (Boxer Indemnity), group of 3 bonds for 500 roubles (2) and 100 marks, The Russian State Loan of 1902 was for the capital sum of 181,959,000 Roubleswhich equated to 393,000,000 German Reichsmarks, 231,870,000 Dutch Florins,or 19,257,000 pounds sterling. The loan was issued by virtue of the ImperialUkase1 of the 1st March 1902 to realise the contribution due to Russia incompensation for the losses incurred during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900. Theloan is also known as The Russian Boxer Indemnity and was also covered bythe Edict of the Chinese Emperor dated 29th May 1901.A consortium of Russian, German and Dutch banking and financial institutionswere involved in the administration of this loan and payment of interest againstcoupons was paid from 18 June-1st July and from 19th December-1st Januaryat various locations. Bearer bonds were issued in the denominations detailed inthe tables above.An interesting anomaly is the denomination of these bonds which is stated inReichsmarks. The Reichsmark was not formally adopted as the German currencyuntil 1924. (See Currency Note opposite)The bonds were negotiable and accepted as security for Government contracts;for deferred excise duties; and for payment of customs duties at prices to be fixedhalf-yearly which would be not less than 90% of the face value of the bonds.It is also of interest to note that Kuhlmann2 described the arrangements for theBoxer Indemnities, allocating serial numbers 100-104 but seems to regard theabove loan as separate to those arrangements since the 1902 Russian StateLoan bonds and loan arrangements were detailed as an Appendix. The Russianelement of the Boxer Indemnity was 28.7% of a total sum of 450,000,000 HaikwanTaels, equivalent in 1900 to the sum of 67,500,000 pounds sterling.(KP 130), fine to very fine
