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3 Roubles Piatigorsk-Batalpashchinsk Company, Independent Army
| Issuer | Kislovodsk Branch of the State Bank (Кисловодское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ Кисловодское Отделение ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА. Прошу заплатить предъявителю сего 3 (три) рубля и таковую же сумму списать съ моего счета. Финансовая Комиссія, Обряз. прик. Команд. войск. Бат.-Пат. отр. Добр. Армiи. I. Годделка преследуется закономъ |
| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a serial number at upper left and the large date inscription 1918 ГОДЪ. Two paragraphs of Cyrillic text affirm that guaranteed cheques circulate on a par with credit notes and that the sum is blocked against the depositor's current account, payable exclusively to the bearer. Manuscript signatures of the Manager (Управляющій) and Cashier (Кассиръ) appear at lower centre, accompanied by a circular official cancellation stamp of Batalpashinsk. |
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The Independent Army (Добровольческая армия) controlled much of the northern Caucasus in 1918, and the chronic shortage of small-denomination currency in the region forced a patchwork of local emergency issues. This note was authorized under the Piatigorsk-Batalpashchinsk Company framework — a short-lived administrative structure covering territory between the Kuban and Terek rivers during the White movement's early, fragile phase of territorial control.
The Kislovodsk branch attribution is significant: the State Bank network was being cannibalized by whichever force held a given town that week, and notes issued under its imprimatur carried only as much authority as the guns behind them.