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25 Roubles North Caucasian Socialist Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Temporary Central Administration of the Branches of the People's Bank of the North Caucasian Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset bon (voucher) printed in black on white paper, framed by a dotted border with corner ornaments. The large Cyrillic legend БОН occupies the upper centre, with the series prefix АБ-8 to its left; below, two lines of smaller text identify the issuing authority. The denomination ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is set in bold type across the centre, flanked by numeral 25 in each corner, with three manuscript signatures of the Managing Director, Controller of the Central Executive Committee, and Treasurer arranged in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 БОН ОБЕСПЕЧЕН ОБЩИМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ СЕВЕРО-КАВКАЗСКОЙ СОВЕТСКОЙ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ И ИМЕЕТ ХОЖДЕНИЕ НАРАВНЕ С КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ В ПРЕДЕЛАХ ВСЕЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ. 1918 Цѣна 15 коп. |
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The North Caucasian Soviet Socialist Republic existed for barely a year — proclaimed in early 1918 and extinguished by Denikin's Volunteer Army before the end of 1919. Currency production under these conditions was improvised and localized, with the Temporary Central Administration issuing notes that had as much to do with asserting institutional legitimacy as with functioning monetary supply. The region was a patchwork of competing authorities, and Bolshevik financial control over the North Caucasus was never stable enough for anything resembling an organized banking apparatus.
Pick S451 falls within a broader family of emergency Soviet peripheral issues from 1918, many of which were printed on whatever stock was available locally rather than through centralized state printing facilities.