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100 Roubles Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralovodskoye Gorodskoye Samoupravleniye (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Administration) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | At left, an ornate cartouche bearing the denomination 100 in Cyrillic within a decorative guilloche frame; at right, a municipal coat of arms with a crowned shield. The large denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ appears in bold letterpress at centre, below a header band carrying the issuer inscription in Cyrillic. Two facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear at the lower margin, with serial number prefix А-2 printed twice. |
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| Obverse lettering | МИНЕРАЛОВОДСКІЯ ГОРОДСКІЯ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЯ СТО РУБЛЕЙ Пятигорскій Городской Голова Кисловодскій Городской Голова Принимаются местными заимодавцами государственным и частными банками наровне с кредитными билетами без ограничения суммы. |
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Mineralnye Vody is a railway junction town in the northern Caucasus, and in 1917 that fact mattered enormously. As the Provisional Government's authority dissolved and the money supply collapsed, dozens of Russian municipalities issued their own scrip to keep local commerce moving — this note is one of those emergency emissions, backed by nothing more than the issuing body's local authority and the town's willingness to accept it in payment.
The Caucasus regional issues of 1917–1918 are among the most fragmented of the entire Russian civil period. Municipal administrations, cooperatives, and railway authorities all printed independently, often with no coordination.