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250 Roubles Stavropol
| Issuer | Государственный Банкъ, Ставропольское Отделение (State Bank, Stavropol Branch) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black and red on white paper, the obverse carries the issuing authority in Cyrillic — Государственный Банкъ, Ставропольское Отделение — in the upper register, with the denomination R. 250 and the date 15 Мая 1918 года below. The face value is restated in large red numerals across the lower centre, with a vertically oriented border text running along the left margin and a serial number printed twice in black, alongside the validity notice НАСТОЯЩІЙ ТВЕРДЫЙ ЧЕКЪ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЕНЪ ДО 1 ЯНВАРЯ 1919 ГОДА. |
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| Obverse lettering | НАСТОЯЩІЙ ТВЕРДЫЙ ЧЕКЪ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЕНЪ ДО 1 ЯНВАРЯ 1919 ГОДА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ СТАВРОПОЛЬСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ Р. 250 15 Мая 1918 года. ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ Прошу заплатить предъявителю сего ДВЕСТИПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪРУБ. и сумму эту списать съ моего текущаго счета. 1-я серія. No 02117 |
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The Stavropol branch of the State Bank issued this note amid one of the most chaotic episodes of the Russian Civil War — the North Caucasus region changed hands repeatedly between Bolshevik, White Army, and various regional forces throughout 1918 and 1919, making orderly currency management essentially impossible. Branch-level notes like this one emerged precisely because central supply lines for printed money had collapsed and local administrators improvised with whatever printing capacity they had on hand.
S520H sits within a dense sub-series of Stavropol branch issues, the suffix letters distinguishing minor typographic variants that were once routinely conflated in older catalogs. The survival rate is uneven across the sub-types, with some variants substantially rarer than their near-identical neighbors.