Catalog
2 Kapeikas Latvia, Mitau, Jelgava
| Issuer | Jelgava (Mitau) City Administration |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 2 Kapeikas (0.02) |
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| Obverse lettering | Jelgawas pilsehtas walde apņemas pret scho parahdu sihmi seschu mehneschu laika pehz meera noslehgschanas 2 diwi kapeikas 2 samaksat. Droschiba par 600,000 rubļu isdodamam parahdu sihmem zaur pilsehtas mantibu 1,593,000 rubļu wehrtiba pilnigi apgalwota. Schihs parahdu sihmes teek Kursemes waldibas maksajamas weetās ka maksas lihdseklis preti ņemtas. Schihs parahdu sihmes wiltoschana teek stingri sodita. Jsdota us pilsehtas domneeku sapulzes nolehmumu no 20. oktobera 1915. Jelgawas kehn. kara birgermeistars. |
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| Reverse lettering | Die Mitausche Stadtverwaltung verpflichtet sich, gegen diesen Schuldschein im Laufe von sechs Monaten nach Friedensschluß 2 zwei Kopeken 2 zu bezahlen. Die Sicherheit der in Höhe von 600,000 Rubel auszugebenden Schuldscheine ist durch städtisches Vermögen im Wert von 1,593,000 Rubel voll gewährleistet. Diese Schuldscheine werden von den amtlichen Zahlungsstellen in Kurland als Zahlungsmittel entgegen genommen. Nachahmungen dieses Schuldscheins werden strafrechtlich verfolgt. Ausgegeben auf Grund des Beschlusses der Stadtverordnetenversammlung vom 20. Oktober 1915. Stellv. Bürgermeister zu Mitau. |
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Jelgava — known to its German-speaking population as Mitau — fell under German military occupation in late 1915, but this emergency issue predates that occupation, produced by the city administration during the chaotic early phase of the war when the Russian imperial supply lines had collapsed and small change had effectively vanished from circulation. Latvian municipal authorities across the region improvised notgeld-style fractional notes to keep local commerce functioning.
The kapeikas denomination places this firmly within the Russian monetary system still nominally in force at the time of issue. Jelgava would change hands multiple times before Latvian independence in 1918.