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250 Roubles North Caucasian Emirate
| Issuer | North Caucasian Emirate |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of scales of justice surmounted by a crescent and stars, set within an ornate rectangular border with geometric guilloche pattern. The denomination 250 appears in each upper corner in Arabic script alongside the Russian legend КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТА and the French BILLET DE CREDIT, with the value 250 ROUBLES / 250 РУБЛЕЙ inscribed below in bilingual text. Arabic inscriptions run across the top and lower portion of the note, with the date 1919 in both Arabic and Russian numerals. |
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| Reverse lettering | ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ 250 АЕ-1 ПОЛЬЗИМ КРЕДИТОМ ПЛАТЕЖ ЗАКОНОМ |
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The North Caucasian Emirate was a short-lived Islamic state declared in September 1919 by Uzun Haji in the mountainous interior of Dagestan and Chechnya, operating in the narrow window between Bolshevik and Denikin White Army pressure from both sides. It lasted only months. Currency issuance under these conditions was less a banking operation than a political assertion — notes were produced with almost no infrastructure and circulated in a region where barter and Russian imperial coin still dominated daily exchange.
Given the emirate's collapse by early 1920, surviving notes from this series were never formally redeemed. The P#S475 is among the rarer emissions from the entire Civil War period, precisely because production volumes were small and the issuing authority ceased to exist before any significant quantity entered sustained use.