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50 000 Roubles Don Cossack Military Government
| Issuer | Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye (Don Cossack Military Government) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle coat of arms within an ornate cartouche at left, with the Cyrillic legend ВСЕВЕЛИКОЕ ВОЙСКО ДОНСКОЕ beneath. The note is a 5% short-term obligation (краткосрочное обязательство) with the denomination РУБ 50000 stated at upper right and in large numerals at far left. Date of issue reads 1 Июля 1919 г. (1 July 1919), with series, serial number, and manuscript signatures of financial officials of the Don State Bank and Treasury Department. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5% КРАТКОСРОЧНОЕ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬСТВО ВСЕВЕЛИКОГО ВОЙСКА ДОНСКОГО ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ ТЫСЯЧ РУБ. СРОК 1 ИЮЛЯ 1919 Г. РУБ 50000 СЕРИЯ АБ ВСЕВЕЛИКОЕ ВОЙСКО ДОНСКОЕ НОВОЧЕРКАССК 1 ОКТЯБРЯ 1918 Г. |
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The Vsevelikoye Voysko Donskoye — the "Great Host of the Don" — issued its own currency throughout the civil war period as the White movement struggled to maintain functioning economies in territory it controlled. By 1919, runaway inflation across all factions, Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik alike, had forced denominations into the tens of thousands; this 50,000-rouble note reflects that monetary collapse as much as any political ambition.
The handstamp security feature is characteristic of emergency issue practice — applied locally to authenticate notes that could not be produced with full security printing under wartime conditions. The Don government lost Novocherkassk to the Red Army in January 1920, ending independent Cossack administration entirely.