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10 Kopecks Special Corps of Northern Army under General Rodzianko
| Issuer | Special Corps of the Northern Army (General Rodzianko) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on cream paper, this uniface note carries a central vignette of an imperial double-headed eagle or corps arms within a rectangular frame composed of simple ruled borders. The denomination numeral is set within the lower portion of the design, with Cyrillic text inscriptions arranged above and around the central device. The overall layout is typographically plain, consistent with the emergency field-printing conditions of the Russian Civil War period. |
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The Special Corps of the Northern Army under General Alexander Rodzianko was one of several White anti-Bolshevik formations operating in the northwestern theatre in 1919, fighting out of the Estonian and Latvian borderlands toward Petrograd. Local military scrip of this type was a practical necessity — regular Tsarist-era currency had collapsed in utility across the region, and the corps could not rely on a functioning central supply chain for monetary instruments. These fractional kopek denominations were effectively a field solution to the problem of small-change transactions in a war zone.
The issuing authority itself was short-lived. By late 1919, following the failure of the October offensive on Petrograd, the corps disintegrated rapidly, which cut short any extended circulation of these notes.