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100 Roubles Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralnovodskoe Gorodskoe Samoupravlenie (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Administration) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set within an elaborate ornamental frame with rococo-style scrollwork and floral vignettes in the corners, printed in green on white paper. The central text in Cyrillic reads the issuer name and denomination, with a smaller explanatory text block stating the notes are secured by deposits at the Pyatigorsk branch of the State Bank. The date 1918 appears at lower left, with serial number at lower left and right, and the anti-counterfeiting legend ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ running along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | СТО РУБЛЕЙ 100 100 100 100 |
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Mineralnye Vody is a railway junction town in the North Caucasus, and in 1918 that junction made it strategically contested — passing through the hands of Bolshevik forces, the Volunteer Army, and various regional authorities in rapid succession. Municipal administrations across the region resorted to issuing their own scrip not as a matter of policy but of necessity, as the Russian imperial ruble supply collapsed and no single authority controlled enough territory to enforce a common currency.
The P#S520 series sits among dozens of similar Caucasian municipal emissions from that year, most printed under improvised conditions with limited security features. Survivorship is largely a matter of chance rather than hoarding.