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25 Roubles Kherson
| Issuer | Kherson Provincial Food Supply Commissioner (Херсонский Губернский Уполномоченный Управления продовольствия) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | КОРЕШОКЪ КВИТАНЦИИ № СЕРІЯ Е Временная Квитанція НА ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБ. Гор. Одесса, 10 Октября 1919 г. Серія Е № 12203 Херсонскій Губернскій Уполномоченный Управленія продовольствія при Главнокомандующемъ вооруженными силами Юга Россіи симъ удостовѣряетъ, что имѣетъ получить не позднее 1-го Апрѣля 1920 года отъ Управленія продовольствія двадцать пять руб., причитающихся ему за поставленное по закону о хлѣбной повинности зерно. Уполномоченъ по прод. Херсонской губ. Начальникъ Отдѣла Бухгалтеріи Помощникъ Начальника УПРАВЛЕНІЕ УПОЛНОМОЧ. ПО ПРОД. ХЕРС. ГУБ. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Kherson in 1919 was caught between multiple competing forces — Red Army, White Army, and various Ukrainian nationalist factions — and the provincial food supply apparatus issued notes like this one as a practical instrument to keep grain procurement moving when centrally-issued currency had little credibility. These food commissariat notes were essentially commodity scrip: authorization tokens within a controlled supply chain rather than general-purpose currency.
The issuing body, a provisioning commissariat rather than a bank, is the telling detail. The official stamp served as the primary authentication mechanism — a measure of improvisation that also means forgeries and over-stamped examples are not unknown in this series.