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5 Roubles Piatigorsk-Batalpashchinsk Company, Independent Army
| Issuer | Kislovodsk Branch of the State Bank (Финансовая Комиссия, Добровольческая Армия) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle vignette at upper centre, flanked by the numeral 5 in each upper corner. A vertical side panel at left carries the text ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ in upright Cyrillic. The central text block reads Кисловодское Отделение ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА followed by the bearer order inscription and the denomination 5 (пять) рублей, with the issuing authority Финансовая Комиссія, Бат.-Пят. отр. Добр. Арміи noted below. A red manuscript signature appears at lower right, and a warning legend ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ runs along the bottom border. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 годъ. Гарантированные чеки имеютъ хожденіе наравне съ кредитными билетами. На сумму настоящаго чека наложено запрещеніе на текущій счетъ вкладчика и деньги будутъ выданы только лишь подателю этого чека. Управляющій Кассиръ |
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The Volunteer Army's financial apparatus during the Kuban campaign of 1918 was improvised at every level. This note was issued under the authority of the Financial Commission attached to the Volunteer Army — the same White force that had recently completed the catastrophic First Kuban ("Ice") March and was rebuilding under Denikin after Kornilov's death at Ekaterinodar in April 1918. Regional State Bank branches that fell under Volunteer control were pressed into service as de facto military treasuries, issuing locally authorized scrip to cover payroll and supply costs.
The Piatigorsk-Batalpashchinsk designation reflects a specific administrative and transport corridor in the northern Caucasus, not a banking district in any conventional sense.