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25 Roubles Zhytomyr - Azov Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Zhytomyr Branch (Азово-Донской Коммерческий Банк, Отделение в Житомире) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Value | 25 Roubles |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ ЖИТОМИРСКОЕ ОТДѢЛЕНІЕ г.Азово-Донской Коммерческій Банкъ Житомирское Отдѣленіе Казначейство 8 Апрѣля 191 8 г. Прошу перечислить съ моего текущаго счета № предъявителю сего двадцать пять рублей Азовско-Донской Коммерческій Банкъ Отдѣленіе въ Житомирѣ Бухгалтеръ Управляющій ЧЕКЪ ПРИЗНАЕТСЯ ДѢЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМЪ ВЪ ТЕЧЕНІЕ ДЕСЯТИ ДНЕЙ СО ВРЕМЕНИ ЕГО ВЫДАЧИ |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries a block of printed text in Cyrillic letterpress stating that the cheque remains valid after the expiry of ten days and is subject to exchange for cash upon receipt of monetary tokens at the Zhytomyr Branch of the State Bank. Below the text the issuing authority is named as Житомирское Отдѣленіе Государственнаго Банка, followed by two manuscript signatures — those of the Manager (Управляющий) and the Controller (Контролёр) — accompanied by a circular official stamp. |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of Imperial Russia's largest joint-stock commercial banks before the revolution, with branches spread across the southern and western provinces. During the Civil War period, as central monetary authority collapsed, provincial branches like the one in Zhytomyr began issuing their own emergency scrip — not as an act of independence, but out of sheer necessity. The Bolshevik takeover of Petrograd had severed normal supply lines for currency, and local commerce needed something to function on.
Zhytomyr changed hands repeatedly between 1918 and 1920 — Ukrainian People's Republic, German occupation, Bolsheviks, White forces, Poles — and notes issued in this window exist in a murky jurisdictional space that makes precise dating within the 1918–1919 window difficult.