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5 Roubles Black Sea Railway
| Issuer | Chernomorskaya Zheleznaya Doroga (Black Sea Railway) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | БОНЪ ЧЕРНОМОРСКОЙ ЖЕЛ. ДОРОГИ. ОБЪ-ЭПЕЧЕНЪ КРЕДИТУЮ СТРОИТЕЛЬНАГО КАПИТАЛА ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Бонъ выпускается на основании постановл. Глав. Дорожн. Комит. отъ 10 Апрѣля 1918 г. и постановленія Сочинск. Окружн. Исполнит. Б-та Раб. и Кр. Депут. отъ 11 Апрѣля 1918 г. 1918 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1) Настоящіе боны имѣютъ обязательное хожденіе въ Сочинскомъ округѣ наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами, согласно постановленія Революціоннаго-Исполнительнаго Комитета Рабочихъ и Крестьянскихъ Депутатовъ отъ 11 Апрѣля 1918 г. 2) Настоящіе боны должны хожденіе до 20 Октября 1918 г. послѣ чего теряютъ свою силу и въ теченіи мѣсяца обмѣниваются, въ кассѣ Строительнаго Управленія Черноморской Желѣзной Дороги, на кредитные билеты. 3) За подѣлку бонъ виновные подлежатъ отвѣтственности на основаніи дѣйствующаго закона. |
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Railway companies across the former Russian Empire issued their own scrip in 1918 out of sheer necessity — the Bolshevik takeover and the cascading collapse of the banking system left regional employers unable to pay wages in any recognized currency. The Black Sea Railway, operating in a corridor that would see the White Army, Volunteer Army, and various Entente-backed forces all cycle through within months of this note's issue, needed to keep laborers and staff on the job regardless of what was happening in Moscow or Petrograd.
Local transport scrip from this region and period survives poorly. The Caucasus theater of the Civil War was particularly destructive to paper records and currency holdings alike.