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250 Roubles Black Sea Peasant Militia
| Issuer | Committee for the Liberation of the Black Sea Province (Комитет Освобождения Черноморской Губернии) |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain white note in letterpress woodcut style, with the denomination ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ inscribed in bold Cyrillic across the top banner, flanked by laurel branches, and the date 1920 set within a central cartouche. The numeral 250 with РУБЛЕЙ appears in each lateral panel, while a central rectangular text block carries the issuing authority inscription of the Committee for the Liberation of the Black Sea Province. Two manuscript signature lines for committee officials appear at the foot of the central text block. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is divided between a Cyrillic legal tender and anti-counterfeiting text block at the left and a large woodcut-style allegorical vignette at the right, in which a seated male peasant figure rests beside a barrel surrounded by agricultural produce including vegetables and fruit. A wreath enclosing a monogram device appears at the upper left, and the denomination 250 РУБЛЕЙ is set in bold decorative Cyrillic type at the lower left. |
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The Committee for the Liberation of the Black Sea Province was a short-lived anti-Bolshevik insurgent body operating in the mountainous hinterland above Novorossiysk and Tuapse during the chaos of 1920. This note was not issued by a functioning bank or treasury — it was field money, produced by a partisan committee that controlled a shrinking patch of territory as the Red Army consolidated the Northern Caucasus. The "Black Sea Peasant Militia" designation reflects the genuinely irregular character of the issuing authority.
Survival rates are low simply because the organization that issued these notes ceased to exist within months. No redemption was ever organized.