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1 Rouble Stavropol
| Issuer | State Bank, Stavropol Branch (Государственный Банк, Ставропольское Отделение) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble |
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| Obverse lettering | Настоящій твердый чекъ дѣйствителенъ до 1-го Марта 1919 года. Государственный Банкъ СТАВРОПОЛЬСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ. Р. 1 15 Мая 1918 г. Прошу заплатить предъявителю сего ОДИНЪ РУБЛЬ и сумму эту списать съ моего текущаго счета. Управляющій Контролеръ Серія 1-я |
| Reverse description | Plain paper letterpress in black, entirely in Cyrillic. The bold heading ЧЕКЪ ГАРАНТИРОВАННЫЙ (ОБЕЗПЕЧЕННЫЙ) heads the text, followed by a two-column explanatory passage affirming that the cheque is secured against deposits held at the Stavropol Branch of the State Bank and that its validity has been extended to 1 March 1919 owing to a shortage of credit notes. A circular violet official handstamp of the Государственный Банкъ Ставропольскій branch is applied at lower left, with manuscript signatures of the Manager and Controller alongside. |
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Stavropol changed hands repeatedly during the Russian Civil War — Volunteer Army, Red Army, back again — and local branch issues like this one filled the vacuum left by the collapse of centralized monetary supply. The State Bank's Stavropol branch produced these notes under duress, with handstamps serving as the primary authentication measure when proper security printing was simply unavailable. The result is a note whose legitimacy rested almost entirely on the stamp of an institution that could not guarantee its own survival week to week.
Provenance matters here more than condition. Determining exactly when in 1918 a given example circulated — and under which administration — is rarely possible from the note alone.