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5 Roubles Special Corps of Northern Army under General Rodzianko
| Issuer | Special Corps of the Northern Army (Otdelny Korpus Severnoy Armii) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette within an ornate arched guilloche frame presents Saint George on horseback slaying the dragon, flanked symmetrically by scrolling foliate ornaments and the numeral 5 at each lower corner. The denomination ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ appears in the upper left and upper right in Cyrillic lettering, with a serial number at the lower right. A text panel below the central vignette identifies the issuing authority in Cyrillic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ Разменный знакъ Временно выпускается Отдѣльнымъ Корпусомъ Сѣверной Арміи |
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The Special Corps of the Northern Army was one of several White Russian formations operating in the Baltic theater during 1919, nominally coordinating with British-backed Estonian and Latvian forces against the Bolsheviks. General Rodzianko — not to be confused with the Duma president Mikhail Rodzianko — commanded the corps during its brief push toward Petrograd in the spring and summer of that year. These notes were a field expedient: the corps had no stable territorial base and certainly no functioning central bank, which makes the issuance of denominated paper currency an act as much of political theater as of practical logistics.
The corps was absorbed into Yudenich's Northwestern Army by late 1919, rendering these notes worthless almost immediately upon issue. Surviving examples are not rare, but genuinely circulated ones are — most were abandoned with retreating troops or confiscated when the Red Army swept through.