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100 Roubles North Caucasian Emirate
| Issuer | North Caucasian Emirate |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette consists of a scalloped oval frame enclosing a set of scales above a crescent and three stars, serving as the arms of the North Caucasian Emirate. The denomination is expressed trilingually — in Arabic script, in Cyrillic as КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЬ 100 РУБЛЕЙ, and in French as BILLET DE CREDIT 100 ROUBLES — flanked by ornamental cartouches at lower left and right. The note carries a fine guilloche wave underprint in green, with a decorative foliate border along the top edge and the date 1919 at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | A rectangular vignette at lower left shows a stylised mountain landscape rendered in dark engraved lines, with a flag bearing a crescent device at upper left. Arabic text in multiple lines occupies the upper portion of the note, followed by the denomination 100 in large numerals with Arabic script below. Serial prefix АД-І appears twice in the lower field, and a Russian anti-counterfeiting legend runs along the bottom margin. |
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The North Caucasian Emirate was a short-lived Islamist state declared in September 1919 by Uzun Haji in the mountainous interior of Dagestan and Chechnya, operating in the fractured space between the Volunteer Army and Bolshevik forces. Its paper currency had almost no time to function as a proper circulating medium — the Emirate collapsed under White Army pressure by early 1920, barely months after these notes were issued.
The extreme brevity of the issuing authority's existence makes surviving examples genuinely rare. Most would have been abandoned or destroyed rather than redeemed.