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25 Roubles Terek Republic
| Issuer | Soviet of People's Commissars of the Terek Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Elaborate foliate and scrollwork border frames the entire note, with a double-headed eagle coat of arms set within an oval vignette at upper centre, flanked by decorative griffins and floral sprays. The year '1918' appears in panels at left and right, with the denomination in Cyrillic overprinted in a bold horizontal band across the centre. Four manuscript signatures of republic officials appear along the lower portion, with printed role titles in Cyrillic beneath each. |
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| Reverse description | A large guilloche underprint in the form of the numeral '25' dominates the centre of the note, visible beneath the main text block. The design is enclosed within a fine geometric border with numerals '25' repeated in each corner. Cyrillic text across the upper and central field states the note's legal tender obligations and penalties for counterfeiting. |
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The Terek Republic was a short-lived Soviet entity in the North Caucasus, proclaimed in early 1918 and effectively destroyed by 1919 as Denikin's Volunteer Army swept through the region. It issued its own currency out of practical necessity — the Russian financial system had collapsed, Kerensky notes were depreciating rapidly, and local trade needed a medium of exchange that carried some local authority.
The S-prefix in Pick reflects its classification as a regional Soviet issue rather than a central RSFSR emission. Notes from this series are rarely encountered in any grade; the Terek Republic's brief existence, combined with the violence and displacement of the Civil War, meant most surviving paper was destroyed or lost during the Volunteer Army occupation of Vladikavkaz in early 1919.