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100 Roubles Grozny - Azov-Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Grozny Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S584 |
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| Reverse description | Unadorned typeset text on white paper, with the acceptance clause and validity statement printed in two lines at the top, followed by the date line Грозный, 14 АПР. 1918 г. The bank name Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк and branch designation Грозненское Отделение are repeated, below which appear two manuscript signatures for the Управляющий (manager) and Бухгалтер (accountant). A circular bank seal is impressed at the upper left, and the denomination control perforation is visible at the upper right. |
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| Protection type | Perforation, Official stamp |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of the largest commercial banks in pre-revolutionary Russia, with a network of provincial branches that found themselves issuing emergency local currency during the chaos of 1918. The Grozny branch operated in the heart of the Terek oilfields — a region violently contested between Bolshevik forces, the White movement, and local Terek Cossack and Chechen factions throughout the civil war period. Notes issued here circulated in genuinely unstable conditions.
The perforation and official stamp were not decorative — branch-issued private emergency notes of this type were routinely authenticated at the counter to prevent forgery and distinguish locally valid issues from notes of the parent bank or rival issuers flooding the same market.