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10 Roubles Rostov
| Issuer | Rostov-on-Don Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S411 |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale pink guilloche underprint covers the entire field, framed by an ornate border of scrollwork and pendant tassel motifs at the sides. A central text panel carries the legal tender obligation in Cyrillic, with an anti-counterfeiting warning below. At the foot, a rectangular cartouche of decorative scrollwork contains the denomination inscription 10 РУБЛЕЙ 10 in bold letterpress. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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During the Russian Civil War, dozens of regional and municipal authorities issued their own currency as central banking infrastructure collapsed. The Rostov-on-Don branch was operating under increasingly precarious conditions — the city changed hands between Bolshevik and White forces multiple times between 1917 and 1920, meaning notes issued here in 1918 could have circulated under entirely different political regimes within months of printing.
The Pick S-prefix designation places this firmly in the South Russia regional issues, a sprawling and often poorly documented family of emergency money. Survival rates vary sharply depending on which printing and which date; some Rostov branch issues are genuinely scarce, others less so.