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5 Roubles North Caucasian Emirate
| Issuer | North Caucasian Emirate |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of scales of justice within an oval cartouche surmounted by a crown, set against a wavy guilloche underprint. The denomination "5" appears at lower left and lower right flanked by Arabic script inscriptions, with bilingual legends reading "КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ / 5 РУБЛЕЙ" in Cyrillic at left and "BILLET DE CREDIT / 5 ROUBLES" in Latin script at right. The year 1919 and an Arabic signature appear along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТЪ 5 РУБЛЕЙ BILLET DE CREDIT 5 ROUBLES 1919 |
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The North Caucasian Emirate existed for less than a year — proclaimed in September 1919 under Uzun Haji, it collapsed when the Red Army swept through the region in early 1920. Currency issues from this period were as much political declarations as functional instruments, produced in desperate haste by a state that never fully controlled its own territory.
P#S471 is among the rarer Caucasian civil war emissions precisely because the issuing authority disintegrated before significant quantities could enter real circulation.