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100 Roubles Urals Cossack Territory
| Issuer | Ural Cossack Army (Уральскаго Казачьяго Войска) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain uncoloured reverse printed entirely in black letterpress with ten numbered clauses in Cyrillic text setting out the conditions of the loan issue, headed «Основанія выпуска настоящаго займа» (Grounds for the issue of the present loan). The text states the loan was authorised by the Military Assembly resolution of 19 February 1918 for a total of 600,000 roubles, extendable to 1,000,000 roubles, bearing six percent interest payable by coupon. A final line notes that interest accrual begins on 15/28 March 1918. |
| Reverse lettering | Основанія выпуска настоящаго займа. 1. Займъ выпускается Уральскимъ Казачьимъ Войскомъ основаніи постановленія Военнаго Съѣзда отъ 19 февраля 1918 г. за № 182 на сумму 600,000 рублей, съ правомъ увеличенія займа Военнымъ Правительствомъ 1 кур. до 1,000,000 рублей. Накисленіе роста начинается съ 15/28 марта 1918 года |
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The Ural Cossack Army — based along the Ural River in what is now western Kazakhstan — issued its own currency during the Civil War as the Bolsheviks pushed east and reliable Kerensky notes grew scarce. The Ural Cossacks held out longer than most White forces in the region, maintaining a degree of administrative independence into 1919 before their army collapsed under Red pressure and much of the remaining population fled south toward the Caspian.
These notes circulated within a genuinely isolated territory, and survival rates reflect that — they were used hard in a frontier economy with no meaningful banking infrastructure to preserve them.