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3 Roubles Mineralnye Vody District
| Issuer | Mineralovodskoe Gorodskoe Samoupravlenie (Mineralnye Vody Municipal Administration) |
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| Year | 1917-1918 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | РАЗМѢННЫЙ ЗНАКЪ ТРИ РУБЛЯ Принимаются мѣстными казначействами государственными и частными банками наравнѣ с кредитными билетами без ограничения суммы. Пятигорскій Городской Голова Кисловодскій Городской Голова ПОДДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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| Reverse lettering | 1917 г. МИНЕРАЛОВОДСКІЯ ГОРОДСКІЯ САМОУПР. Размѣнные знаки обезпечены в полной суммѣ неприкосновенным вкладом в Пятигорском Отдѣленіи Государственнаго Банка на имя Пятигорскаго и Кисловодского Городскіх Самоуправленій Управляющій Пятигорскімъ Отд. Госуд. Банка ТРИ РУБЛЯ |
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Mineralnye Vody, a railway junction town in the northern Caucasus, became an unlikely issuer of local scrip during the collapse of central monetary authority following the October Revolution. The Provisional Government's currency reforms had already strained supply chains for printed money, and by late 1917 remote municipalities across the Caucasus were producing their own notes simply to keep local commerce functional — this was not a political act so much as a logistical response to empty tills.
The S-prefix in the Pick reference places this firmly in the Russian Civil War local issues classification, a category notorious for forgeries and later reproductions made for the collector market.