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25 Roubles North Caucasian Emirate
| Issuer | North Caucasian Emirate |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central oval vignette with a balance scale over an open book, flanked by two rectangular panels each bearing the Arabic and Cyrillic numeral '25' above the denomination legend. Arabic script inscriptions run along the top of the note, with bilingual Cyrillic and French text reading 'КРЕДИТ-БИЛЕТ 25 РУБЛЕЙ' and 'BILLET DE CRÉDIT 25 ROUBLES' in the respective side panels. The date 1919 appears at the lower left, with an overall guilloche underprint pattern across the face. |
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| Reverse description | A crescent-moon flag on a staff rises at the left against a mountainous landscape rendered in a linear vignette. Arabic script inscriptions occupy the upper portion of the note, with a Cyrillic anti-counterfeiting warning legend across the centre reading 'ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ'. A guilloche underprint fills the background, and the serial number prefix appears at lower left and upper right. |
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The North Caucasian Emirate was a short-lived Islamic state proclaimed by Uzun Haji in September 1919 in the mountainous regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, existing in direct opposition to both the White Army of Denikin and the Bolsheviks. Its paper currency was issued under extraordinarily unstable conditions — the emirate collapsed within months of its proclamation, and circulating notes had almost no time to establish themselves in commerce before the political entity that backed them ceased to exist.
Surviving examples of P#S472 are genuinely rare. The brevity of the issuing authority's existence, rather than any printing peculiarity, is the primary reason.