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100 Roubles Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralnovodskoe Gorodskoe Samoupravlenie (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Administration) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | МИНЕРАЛОВОДСКІЯ ГОРОДСКІЯ САМОУПРАВЛЕНІЯ РАЗМЕННЫЙ ЗНАК СТО РУБЛЕЙ ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ 1918 г. |
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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.