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1 Rouble Black Sea Railway
| Issuer | Black Sea Railway (Черноморская Железная Дорога) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНЪ ЧЕРНОМОРСКОЙ ЖЕЛ. ДОРОГИ ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ ОБЕЗПЕЧЕНЪ КРЕДИТАМИ СТРОИТЕЛЬНАГО КАПИТАЛА 1918 Бонъ выпускается на осн. пост. Глав. Дор. К. отъ 10 Апр. 1918 г. и пост. Соч. Окр. И. К. Р. и К. Д. отъ 11 Апр. 1918 г. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1) Настоящіе боны имѣютъ обязательное хожденіе въ Сочинскомъ округѣ наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами, согласно постановленія Революціоннаго-Исполнительнаго Комитета Рабочихъ и Крестьянскихъ Депутатовъ отъ 11 Апрѣля 1918 г. 2) Настоящіе боны имѣютъ хожденіе до 20 Октября 1918 г. послѣ чего теряютъ свою силу и въ теченіи мѣсяца обмѣниваются, въ кассѣ Строительнаго Управленія Черноморской Желѣзной Дороги, на кредитные билеты. 3) За подѣлку бонъ виновные подлежатъ отвѣтственности на основаніи дѣйствующаго закона. |
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The Black Sea Railway operated a short coastal line in the Caucasus region, and by 1918 the collapse of central monetary authority had left railway administrations, municipal governments, and cooperative societies across the former Russian Empire issuing their own emergency scrip. This note is part of that broad phenomenon — bonki, as locals called such substitutes — produced when Kerensky rubles and early Bolshevik emissions were either unavailable or distrusted.
Railway-issued scrip from this period was typically redeemable only within a narrow geographic and institutional scope, which is precisely why so little survived: it had no reason to travel far, and no one outside the issuer's network had incentive to preserve it.