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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 |
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| Value | 250 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | A standing male figure (farmer) at left and right flank the central text block, set within an Art Nouveau-style border with intricate foliate ornamentation. The centre carries the denomination in large Cyrillic lettering — ДВЕСТИПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ — above a statement of legal equivalence with state credit notes. Four manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion alongside the date 1918 г., with printed role titles identifying the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, the Manager, the Finance Commissar, and the Treasurer. |
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| Reverse lettering | ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ РОССИЙСК. СОЦИАЛ. ФЕДЕР. СОВЕТ. РЕСПУБЛИКА ВЫПУЩЕНА НА ОСНОВАНИИ ОБЩЕГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЭМИССИОННОГО ПРАВА ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ |
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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.