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1000 Roubles Zhytomyr - Azov Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Zhytomyr Branch |
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| Year | 1918-1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕК ПРИЗНАЕТСЯ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМ В ТЕЧЕНИЕ ДЕСЯТИ ДНЕЙ СО ВРЕМЕНИ ЕГО ВЫДАЧИ Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк. Житомирское Отделение. Житомирское Отделение ГОСУДАРСТВЕНН. БАНКА 1000 28 СЕН 1918 Прошу заплатить одну тысячу рублей и таковую же сумму списать с моего текущего счета. Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк. Житомирское Отделение. Бухгалтер Управляющий ГОСУДАРСТВЕН. БАНКЪ |
| Reverse description | Plain white reverse with entirely typeset Cyrillic text arranged in paragraph form, stating the conditions of validity and exchangeability of the cheque at the Zhytomyr Branch of the State Bank. Two handwritten manuscript signatures appear below the printed titles Управляющий and Контролер, accompanied by a circular violet official bank stamp at the lower left. |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of the largest commercial banks in pre-revolutionary Russia, with a branch network that extended well into Ukraine. During the Civil War period, when central monetary authority collapsed entirely and rail links to Petrograd and Moscow were severed or unreliable, regional branches issued their own scrip simply to keep local commerce moving. The Zhytomyr branch was operating in a city that changed hands repeatedly between 1918 and 1920 — Soviet forces, the Directory of the Ukrainian People's Republic, and Polish troops all held it at various points.
Whether notes issued under these conditions carried any real redemption guarantee by the time fighting ended is doubtful.