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1 Rouble Slutsk
| Issuer | Slutsk District Zemstvo (Слуцкое Уездное Земство) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown underprint with a geometric guilloche pattern across the entire field, framed by a repeating ornamental border. The heading СЛУЦКОЕ УѢЗДНОЕ ЗЕМСТВО appears at upper centre in Cyrillic, with the inscription Краткосрочная бона на сумму одинъ рубль below. The denomination 1 РУБ. is printed at centre alongside a serial number, with a circular handstamp of the Zemstvo Board at lower left and manuscript signatures of board members. |
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| Reverse lettering | Краткосрочная бона Слуцкаго Уѣзднаго Земства На сумму одинъ рубль 1 Руб. 1918 Подлѣлка будетъ преслѣдоваться закономъ. |
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The Slutsk District Zemstvo issued this note amid the administrative chaos following the collapse of Russian imperial authority and the subsequent German occupation of Belarus. Zemstvo organs — local self-governing bodies originally established under the tsarist reforms of 1864 — found themselves functioning as de facto local governments in the absence of any stable central power, and in some cases resorted to printing their own scrip simply to pay staff and suppliers.
The handstamp security feature is characteristic of hastily produced provincial emergency money from this period: a way to authenticate or authorize notes without access to sophisticated printing infrastructure. Survivorship is uneven across the Slutsk zemstvo issues, and P#S241 is not among the common ones.