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10 Roubles Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralovodskoe Gorodskoe Samoupravlenie (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Administration) |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of an ornate circular guilloche frame enclosing the numeral '10' above the Cyrillic legend 'ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ', flanked to the right by the municipal arms of Mineralnye Vody with a crowned shield bearing a diagonal chequered pattern. The issuing authority inscription 'МИНЕРАЛОВОДСКІЯ ГОРОДСКІЯ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЯ' runs across the top in a dark panel, with serial number prefixes at upper left and lower right. Two manuscript signatures appear at the base, identified as the City Heads (Городской Голова) of Pyatigorsk and Kislovodsk respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | ДЕСЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Разменные знаки обеспечены в полной сумме напечатанными отделением Государственного банка на имена Пятигорского и Кисловодского Городских Самоуправлений Управляющий Пятигорским Отделением Государственного Банка 1917 |
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Mineralnye Vody, a Caucasian rail junction town better known for its mineral spas than its finances, was one of dozens of municipal and commercial bodies across the collapsing Russian Empire that resorted to printing local scrip when central currency dried up entirely in 1917–18. These emissions, collectively called "bonы" or local money, filled a genuine vacuum — Kerensky notes and Imperial roubles had either been hoarded or ceased arriving in sufficient quantities.
The Pick S-series designation places this firmly in the vast category of Russian Civil War provisional issues, most of which had no redemption mechanism that survived the subsequent Bolshevik consolidation.