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| Issuer | Armavir Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918-1928 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Plain white paper with a block of Cyrillic text in letterpress stating that the cheque is accepted by the Armavir Branch of the State Bank and circulates on a par with government credit notes until 1 December 1918, with a note that altered cheques are invalid. Two manuscript signatures appear below the roles Управляющий (Manager) and Контролеръ (Controller), and a red circular official stamp of the Armavir Branch is affixed to the lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | Настоящій чекъ акцептованъ Армавирскимъ отдѣленіемъ Государственнаго банка и имѣетъ хожденіе наравнѣ съ государственными кредитными билетами до 1-го Декабря 1918 г. Чекъ съ исправленіями оплатѣ не подлежитъ. Управляющій Контролеръ |
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| Comments |
Armavir, a commercially active town in the Kuban region, found itself cut off from central monetary supply during the Civil War period and resorted to issuing its own emergency currency — one of dozens of local institutions across the former Russian Empire that did so between 1917 and 1922. The Armavir branch issues are among the more systematically catalogued of these provincial notes, though the precise print runs and dates of individual denominations within the series remain poorly documented.
The span listed in the catalog — 1918 through 1928 — almost certainly reflects Pick's uncertainty about redemption or withdrawal dates rather than a decade of active issuance. By the early 1920s, Soviet monetary consolidation had effectively ended parallel local emission.