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250 Roubles North Caucasian Socialist Soviet Republic
| Issuer | North Caucasian Soviet Republic (Краевой Исполнительный Комитет Советов Север-Кавказа) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | КРАЕВОГО ИСПОЛНИТЕЛЬНОГО КОМИТЕТА СОВЕТОВ СЕВЕР-КАВКАЗА ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК ДВЕСТИПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ ИМЕЕТ ХОЖДЕНИЕ НАРАВНЕ С ОБЩЕГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ Председатель КИК Управляющий Комиссар финансов Казначей 1918 г. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large circular guilloche vignette at left, within which a hammer and sickle device appears over a rising sun motif. Sweeping Art Nouveau foliate scrollwork surrounds the central design. At upper right, the issuing authority is identified in two lines of Cyrillic text, with a lower inscription citing the basis of emission under general state authority and a warning against counterfeiting; serial prefix letters appear at upper right and lower left. |
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The North Caucasian Soviet Republic was a short-lived Bolshevik entity that barely survived its first year — crushed by Denikin's Volunteer Army by early 1919. Its currency issues were emergency instruments, produced under conditions of active civil war with White forces pressing from multiple directions simultaneously. The 250-rouble denomination was part of a series issued by the Kraevoy Ispolnitelny Komitet, the regional executive committee, attempting to assert economic authority over territory it was already losing.
Surviving examples tend to show heavy use — this was money people actually spent, quickly, before the issuing government ceased to exist.