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10 Roubles Armavir
| Issuer | Armavir Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S479C |
| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a light underprint, with the title inscription of the Armavir Branch of the State Bank at top and the denomination of 10 roubles stated in both numeral and written form. A date stamp reading 16 September 1918 appears in the central field, accompanied by a manuscript request to debit the bearer's current account, with two handwritten signatures at the lower portion. A vertical serial number is printed along the left margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain black letterpress text on unadorned paper, setting out the acceptance conditions of the cheque by the Armavir Branch of the State Bank and affirming its validity at par with State credit notes until 1 December 1918, with a note that altered cheques will not be honoured. A circular official bank stamp is applied at the lower left, accompanied by two manuscript signatures below the printed titles Управляющій and Контролеръ. |
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Armavir, a Kuban regional center, briefly hosted a branch of the State Bank during the Civil War period when central authority had effectively collapsed across the Caucasus. Local branches were authorized — or simply compelled by circumstance — to issue their own obligations, and the resulting notes varied considerably in design and printing quality depending on what equipment and paper were locally available. Armavir's issues from 1918 are among the more numerous of the regional South Russian emissions, though the S479 series shows several plate variants, which is what the "C" suffix here designates.
These circulated in a town that changed hands multiple times between Bolshevik and White forces through 1918–1919.