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50 Kopecks Crimea
| Issuer | Crimean Regional Government |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | МАРКА КРЫМСКАГО КРАЕВОГО ПРАВИТЕЛЬСТВА 50 КОПЪЕКЪ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ КОПѢЕКЪ ГЕРБОВАЯ ПОЧТОВАЯ |
| Reverse description | A small double-headed eagle vignette at upper centre above a large-format Cyrillic text inscription which reads 'ИМѢЕТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ ВЪ КАЧЕСТВѢ ДЕНЕЖНАГО ЗНАКА', indicating the note's legal circulation status as a monetary token. The reverse is otherwise plain, printed in brown on cream paper with a simple ruled border frame. |
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The Crimean Regional Government — a short-lived autonomous administration under General Sulkevich — issued this note during the German occupation of 1918, a period when the peninsula was nominally independent but entirely dependent on Berlin's strategic calculus. When German forces withdrew in November 1918, the government collapsed within weeks, and its currency became worthless almost immediately.
Low-denomination fractional notes like this one circulated because small change had essentially vanished across the former Russian Empire by mid-1918 — a universal problem that prompted dozens of local and municipal authorities to print their own substitutes.