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1000 Roubles Urals Cossack Territory
| Issuer | Ural Cossack Army (Уральскаго Казачьяго Войска) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour guilloche panel at left incorporating an imperial double-headed eagle vignette within an ornate cartouche, with denomination numerals '1000' at upper left and right corners and '6%' at upper centre. Central text in Cyrillic announces a six-percent obligation of the Ural Cossack Army for one thousand roubles, flanked by two rectangular date boxes indicating 15/28 March 1918 and 15/28 December. Lower portion carries printed text specifying the terms of redemption by the Military Treasury and bears printed facsimile signatures of the Chairman of the Military Assembly, the Chairman of the Military Government, and the Accountant, along with serial number in two positions. |
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| Signature(s) | Б. Карауниковъ (Chairman of the Military Assembly), Г. Фоминцевъ (Chairman of the Military Government) |
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The Ural Cossack Army occupied a peculiar position in the Russian Civil War — nominally aligned with the White cause but fiercely autonomous, resisting both Bolshevik centralization and the authority of Kolchak's Omsk government with equal stubbornness. Their currency was an assertion of that independence as much as a practical necessity, issued when the disruption of Kerensky and Romanov-era notes made some local medium of exchange unavoidable.
The dual signatures reflect the Army's unusual dual-headed administrative structure: military assembly and civil government signing jointly, a formality that distinguished Ural Cossack issues from the improvised scrip produced by many other regional White authorities in 1918.