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100 Roubles Zhytomyr - Azov Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Zhytomyr Branch |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Cheque-format emergency note on plain paper, with a guilloche-free utilitarian layout typical of Civil War-era Russian local issues. The central text, printed in Cyrillic letterpress, reads ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА with a handwritten denomination of 100 roubles and a manuscript date of 15 February 191_. The lower portion carries two handwritten signatures — one over the title Бухгалтеръ (Bookkeeper) and one over Управляющiй (Manager) — along with a rubber-stamped oval impression of the Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк, Житомир branch; a marginal notice at the top states the cheque is valid for ten days from the date of issue. |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕКЪ ПРИЗНАЕТСЯ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМЪ ВЪ ТЕЧЕНИЕ ДЕСЯТИ ДНЕЙ СО ВРЕМЕНИ ЕГО ВЫДАЧИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА Прошу заплатить предъявителю сего сто рублей и таковую же сумму списать съ моего текущего счета АЗОВСКО-ДОНСКОЙ КОММЕРЧЕСКИЙ БАНКЪ Бухгалтеръ Управляющiй |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of Russia's largest commercial banks before the revolution — headquartered in St. Petersburg with a broad provincial network. After 1917, individual branches found themselves cut off from central authority and began issuing their own emergency scrip to keep local commerce moving. The Zhytomyr branch operated in contested Ukrainian territory, where Bolshevik, German, and various nationalist forces cycled through control between 1918 and 1919.
P#S354 falls within the vast category of Russian Civil War local issues, most of which had extremely short circulation windows before the issuing branch collapsed, was nationalized, or simply ran out of whatever backing it had claimed.