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25 Roubles Grozny - Azov-Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Grozny Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is typographically simple, carrying the perforated '25' denomination at top centre and a circular bank stamp at upper left. Three lines of printed text confirm acceptance by the bank and equivalence with credit notes, note the validity date of 1 July 1918, and give a dated issue line for Grozny 1918. The issuer's name and branch are repeated in full, followed by two manuscript signatures above the printed designations 'Управляющій' (Manager) and 'Бухгалтеръ' (Accountant). |
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| Protection type | Perforation |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of the largest joint-stock commercial banks in pre-revolutionary Russia, with its main office in Rostov-on-Don. By 1918, the Grozny branch was operating in the middle of a civil war, with Chechen oil revenues still flowing but Bolshevik pressure mounting from multiple directions. Local branch issues like this one were a stopgap — the central banking system had effectively collapsed, and regional offices were authorizing their own emergency paper to keep commerce moving in the oilfields.
The perforation security feature is notable: relatively few provincial Russian civil war issues bothered with it, suggesting the Grozny branch had access to better equipment than many contemporaries.