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25 000 Roubles Don Cossack Military Government
| Issuer | Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye (Don Cossack Military Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5% КРАТКОСРОЧНОЕ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВО ВСЕВЕЛИКАГО ВОЙСКА ДОНСКОГО Срокъ 1 Іюля 1919г. Руб 25000 Серія АЬ Двадцать пять тысячъ руб. Новочеркасскъ 1 Октября 1918 ВСЕВЕЛИКОЕ ВОЙСКО ДОНСКОЕ |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse with a large circular handstamp at left indicating the place and institution of acceptance, accompanied by manuscript Cyrillic text authorizing the note for circulation at par with monetary obligations. A manuscript signature of the cashier appears at lower right. |
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The Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye — the Don Cossack government seated at Novocherkassk — issued an extraordinary range of emergency currency between 1918 and 1920 as the White cause crumbled in the south. By 1919, when this 25,000-rouble note appeared, runaway inflation had rendered lower denominations functionally useless; the Don government was printing in denominations that would have been unthinkable eighteen months earlier.
Novocherkassk fell to Bolshevik forces in January 1920, effectively ending Don Cossack autonomous finance. Notes printed in the final months of the regime's existence rarely saw extended circulation.