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25 Roubles Sochi
| Issuer | Sochi City Administration (Сочинское Городское Управление) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНЫ СОЧИНСКАГО ГОРОДСКОГО УПРАВЛЕНИЯ Выпущены по постановленю Городской Думы и обезпечены неприкосновен. вкладами въ мѣстн. кредитн. учрежденіяхъ. 25 ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 25 Городск. Голова Кассиръ Члены Управы: 1919 |
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| Reverse lettering | ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 25 I. Боны обязательны к прiему въ г. Сочи и Сочинскомъ Округѣ наравнѣ съ кред. билет. до 30 Сентября 1920 г., послѣ чего, въ теченіе 3 мѣс. обмѣниваются Город. Управ. на денежные знаки, которымъ будетъ присвоено право закон. хожденія. II. Съ 1 янв. 1921 г. боны теряютъ значеніе денеж. знака. III. За подѣлку бонъ виновные подвергаются наказанію, какъ за подѣлку кредитныхъ билетовъ. 25 РУБЛЕЙ 25 |
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Sochi's municipal administration issued this note during a period of extraordinary political fragmentation in the Black Sea region. By 1919, the area around Sochi had passed through Bolshevik, White Army, and Georgian government control in rapid succession, and the local supply of viable currency was catastrophically thin. Municipal scrip of this kind filled the gap left by absent central authority — not as a political statement, but as a practical response to commerce grinding to a halt.
The S585D designation distinguishes this from closely related varieties in the same series, likely a signature or overprint variant. Sochi municipal issues from this period are genuinely scarce; survival rates were low given the administrative chaos that followed consolidation of Bolshevik control over the region in early 1920.