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1 Rouble Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralnovodsky Gorodskoe Samoupravlenie (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Self-Government) |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central arms of Pyatigorsk at left, with the large Cyrillic denomination ОДИН РУБЛЬ across the centre. An ornate scrollwork border frames the note, with a monogram device at upper right. Text columns flanking the central inscription attribute authority to the Pyatigorsk City Head (Пятигорский Городской Голова) at lower left and the Kislovodsk City Head (Кисловодский Городской Голова) at lower right, each position accompanied by a manuscript signature. The heading РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЗНАКЪ appears in a decorative cartouche at the top, and the anti-counterfeiting legend ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ runs along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЗНАКЪ ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ Пятигорский Городской Голова Кисловодский Городской Голова ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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Mineralnye Vody, a spa town on the North Caucasus railway line, became one of dozens of Russian localities that printed their own emergency fractional currency during the collapse of central monetary authority following the February Revolution. The Provisional Government's inability to maintain coin and small-denomination note supply forced municipal bodies — city councils, cooperatives, zemstvos — to fill the gap themselves. Most of these local emissions had no formal authorization from Petrograd and no redemption guarantee beyond the issuing body's own solvency.
The Mineralnovodsky issues fall into that chaotic 1917–18 window when the North Caucasus changed hands repeatedly between White, Red, and various regional forces. Whether these notes retained any practical purchasing power through that period is doubtful.