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25 Roubles Grozny - Russo-Asiatic Bank
| Issuer | Russo-Asiatic Bank, Grozny Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Чекъ признается действительнымъ до 1-го Іюля 1918 года. РУССКО-АЗІАТСКІЙ БАНКЪ. Грозненское Отдѣленіе. Руб. 25.- Чекъ №00772 Предъявителю сего чека уплачивается съ текущаго счета № двадцать пять рублей. |
| Reverse description | Entirely typeset reverse carrying the bank's acceptance declaration in Cyrillic pre-reform script, affirming the cheque's validity at par with credit notes. A circular bank stamp is impressed at lower left, and two manuscript signatures appear below the designation lines for Управляющій and Бухгалтеръ, with the date and place of issue, Грозный, 1918, filled in by hand. |
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The Russo-Asiatic Bank's Grozny branch issued these notes during the extraordinarily fractured monetary environment of the North Caucasus in 1918, when central authority had effectively collapsed and dozens of local institutions — banks, municipalities, cooperatives, military commands — were printing their own emergency scrip. The Grozny branch had particular reason to act: the town was a significant oil-producing center, and commercial activity demanded some functional medium of exchange when Romanov-era currency had become unreliable and increasingly scarce.
The Russo-Asiatic Bank itself was among the largest foreign-linked commercial banks in late Imperial Russia, with heavy French capital behind it. That pedigree meant little in 1918 Grozny, where the note circulated under conditions of active civil war and shifting Bolshevik, White, and local nationalist control.