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1 Rouble Terek Republic
| Issuer | Soviet of People's Commissars of the Terek Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a double-headed eagle at upper centre, flanked by two ornamental columns entwined with foliage — oak branches to the left and laurel to the right — set within a decorative cartouche. The denomination «ОДИН РУБЛЬ» (One Rouble) is inscribed in large Cyrillic letters across the centre, with the motto «СВОБОДА — РАВЕНСТВО — БРАТСТВО» (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) on banners above. Four facsimile signature lines for the Chairman of the Soviet of People's Commissars, the People's Finance Commissar, the Manager of the People's Bank, and the Cashier of the People's Bank appear in the lower portion, with a red guilloche monogram underprint beneath them. |
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| Reverse description | A large laurel and oak wreath at centre encloses a multi-line legal text declaration in Cyrillic, with the date «1918» on a ribbon at the base of the wreath. Sprigs of oak leaves flank the wreath on the right, while the overall composition is framed by a geometric guilloche border with ornamental corner devices. |
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The Terek Republic was a short-lived Bolshevik-aligned state in the North Caucasus, declared in early 1918 and extinguished by 1919 as Denikin's White forces swept through the region. Its Soviet of People's Commissars issued emergency currency under chaotic conditions, with printing resources improvised locally rather than drawn from any established security printing infrastructure. The result is a crudely produced note by the standards of the period.
Surviving examples are genuinely scarce — the Terek Republic's collapse was rapid, and much of its paper currency was either destroyed in fighting or lost to the instability that consumed the region through 1919 and into the Civil War's final convulsions.