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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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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
| Protection description | Circular official ink stamp of the Kherson Provincial Food Supply Administration applied to the document, visible on the reverse as a faint impression. |
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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.