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250 Roubles Sochi
| Issuer | Sochi City Administration (Сочинское Городское Управление) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green and red letterpress note with an ornate floral and foliate border frame. The central text in Cyrillic reads the denomination ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ in red, beneath the issuing authority legend at the top. The value '250' appears in red at upper left, upper right, and in a guilloche roundel at the bottom centre, flanked by the serial number in black at lower left and lower right. Signature lines for the City Head (Городск. Голова), Members of the Board (Члены Управы), and Cashier (Кассир) are present below the main text. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress reverse with matching ornate foliate border framing. The denomination ДВЬСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ РУБЛЕЙ is inscribed in large Cyrillic letters at the top centre, with '250' at upper left and upper right. The central field contains three paragraphs of legal text in Cyrillic governing the note's validity and acceptance in Sochi and the Sochi District, with the date of issue year '1919' at the bottom centre within a decorative cartouche. A red overprint of the denomination figure appears across the legal text block. |
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Sochi's 1919 municipal notes are among the more obscure products of Russia's civil war fragmentation — issued by a local city administration scrambling to fill a vacuum left by collapsing central authority and near-total disruption of currency supply from both Bolshevik and White Army sources. The Sochi series circulated in an area that changed hands repeatedly during 1918–1919, which means surviving notes often show heavy use; the paper stock was poor to begin with.
The S585 series encompasses several denominations, and the H variant specifically is one of the scarcer ones to surface in decent condition. Local printing under wartime constraints rarely produced consistent quality.