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300 Roubles Armavir
| Issuer | Armavir Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918-1928 |
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| In circulation to | 1 December 1918 |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a light guilloche underprint bearing the word ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНК (State Bank) across the centre field. The upper portion carries a two-line title inscription identifying the note as a guaranteed cheque of the Armavir Branch of the State Bank for 300 roubles, with the denomination stated both numerically in the corners and in Cyrillic script (ТРИСТА) in the body text. A circular red official stamp of the Armavir Branch overlaps the lower left area, and a manuscript signature appears at the lower right. |
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| 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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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.