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5 Roubles Mogilev Region
| Issuer | Mogilev Provincial Treasury |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in dark ink on light blue-green paper with an ornate typographic border composed of repeated rosette and scroll medallions at each corner bearing the numeral 5. The denomination ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ is set in large bold Cyrillic display type at centre, beneath the warning legend ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ at top and bottom. Two columns of Russian text flanking a large central numeral 5 vignette provide the guarantee and redemption conditions, with a serial number in red at lower left and a manuscript cashier signature at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНЪ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ 1918-ГОДЪ. РАЗМЕНЬНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ МОГИЛЕВСКОЙ ГУБЕРНIИ Кассиръ |
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The Mogilev Provincial Treasury issued local currency in 1918 during the administrative chaos that followed the Bolshevik seizure of power, when central banking functions had collapsed and regional bodies across the former Russian Empire improvised their own emergency money. Mogilev had particular strategic weight — it had been the location of Stavka, the Imperial General Headquarters, until the February Revolution, and by 1918 was caught between competing Soviet and German-aligned authorities following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
Provincial treasury notes from this region are among the less documented Russian civil-war-period locals, and S238 appears in relatively few documented collections.