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100 Roubles Grozny - Volga-Kama Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Volga-Kama Commercial Bank, Grozny Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white paper cheque-style note with a simple typeset border of ornamental guilloche strips along the left and bottom edges. The issuing institution name «Волжско-Камскiй Коммерческiй Банкъ, Грозненское Отдѣленiе» is printed in Cyrillic letterpress at the top, beneath a validity notice stating the cheque is valid until 1 July 1918. The denomination «сто рублей» appears in bold Cyrillic text at the foot of the note, flanked by wavy rule ornaments, with the amount «Руб. 100.-» repeated in manuscript-style type at upper right and a handwritten cheque number at centre left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Акцептованъ банкомъ и имѣетъ хожденiе наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами. Чекъ дѣйствителенъ до 1-го Іюля 1918 г. Грозный, 13 ФЕВ. 1918 г. Волжско-Камскiй Коммерческiй Банкъ, Грозненское Отдѣленiе. Управляющiй Бухгалтеръ |
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The Volga-Kama Commercial Bank was one of Russia's major joint-stock commercial banks before the revolution, with branches across the empire. After October 1917, local branches found themselves cut off from central authority and, in many cases, from any functioning monetary system. The Grozny branch issued emergency notes in 1918 amid the extraordinarily volatile conditions of the North Caucasus, where Bolshevik, White, and local nationalist forces were all contesting control simultaneously.
Grozny's oil wealth made it a particular flashpoint. Private bank scrip of this kind typically circulated only until one faction or another imposed its own currency — a short window, which kept quantities small.