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5 Roubles Grozny - Azov-Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Grozny Branch |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S582 |
| Obverse description | Plain typeset check-format note issued by the Grozny Branch of the Azov-Don Commercial Bank, with the validity notice at the top reading that the cheque is valid until 1 July 1918. The centre field bears a printed cheque number and the denomination РУБ. 5.- in bold type to the right, with a text line below stating that the bearer is to be paid from the current account. The denomination in words, Пять рублей, appears within a ruled panel at the foot of the note, flanked by small ornamental rosette devices. |
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| Obverse lettering | Чекъ признается действительнымъ до 1-го Іюля 1918 г. Азовско-Донской Коммерческій Банкъ. Грозненское Отдѣленіе. Чекъ № РУБ. 5.- Предъявителю сего чека уплачивается съ текущаго счета № Пять рублей. |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of the largest joint-stock commercial banks in pre-revolutionary Russia, with branches spread across the Caucasus and southern regions. Its Grozny branch — serving an oil-boom town whose petroleum industry had been drawing capital and labor since the 1890s — found itself issuing emergency local scrip in 1918 as the Bolshevik seizure of central banking infrastructure shattered normal money supply channels across the region.
This kind of branch-level emergency emission was legally dubious from the moment it was printed. The Civil War made enforcement of anything academic.