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100 Roubles Kislovodsk
| Issuer | Kislovodsk Branch of the State Bank (Кисловодское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Кисловодское Отделение Государственнаго Банка Чекъ на 100 рублей По полученіи Отдѣленіемъ мелкихъ денежныхъ знаковъ донского образца подлежитъ обмѣну на таковые. Управляющій Кассиръ 2-я серія |
| Reverse description | The reverse is plain, printed on unadorned off-white paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation, consistent with the emergency character of this local Civil War-era issue. |
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Kislovodsk, a Caucasian spa town, became an unlikely financial center during the Russian Civil War when the Volunteer Army and successive White forces controlled the North Caucasus. Provincial branches of the State Bank issued their own emergency obligations throughout 1918 as central supply from Petrograd collapsed entirely — this note is one of dozens of such locally-authorized issues, each with its own quirks of authorization, printing, and redemption promise.
The S-prefix Pick designation places it firmly in the Specialized catalog's Russian Civil War section. Survival rates for North Caucasus provincials vary sharply; Kislovodsk issues are among the less commonly encountered compared to Rostov or Ekaterinodar equivalents.