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1000 Roubles High Command of the Armed Forces
| Issuer | High Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 1000 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by a fine guilloche border with a decorative ribbon motif — rendered in the orange-and-black colours of the St. George ribbon — draped across the top. A circular medallion vignette at lower left contains a bell monument, while at lower right a second vignette presents St. George on horseback. The central field bears the denomination ТЫСЯЧА РУБЛЕЙ in large Cyrillic letterpress, with the issuing authority inscription above and two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of the Russian double-headed eagle with spread wings, set within an oval guilloche underprint. The denomination 1000 appears in large numerals at upper left and upper right corners, with a small imperial eagle vignette at top centre and the date 1919 in an ornamental cartouche at the bottom. Two columns of text in Cyrillic flank the central eagle vignette. |
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The High Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia — the Volunteer Army's supreme administrative apparatus under Denikin — issued this note as part of a parallel currency system that competed awkwardly with Tsarist-era Imperial notes still circulating in White-held territories. The 1919 issues were printed under wartime conditions and intended to fund operations across a front that stretched, at its peak, from the Don to within striking distance of Moscow.
Denikin's forces collapsed rapidly by early 1920, and most paper issued under the AFSR command became worthless within months. Notes from this series that survived did so largely by chance — the military retreats left no orderly redemption process.