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50 Kopecks South Russia, Rostov-on-Don branch of the State Bank
| Issuer | Rostov-on-Don Branch of the State Bank |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Kopeсks (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 КОПѢЕКЪ 50 БИЛЕТЪ ВЫПУЩЕНЪ РОСТОВСКОЙ КОНТОРОЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАГО БАНКА (Translation: 50 KOPECKS 50 NOTE ISSUED BY THE ROSTOV BRANCH OF THE STATE BANK) |
| Reverse description | Dark blue-grey print on cream paper. At centre, an oval portrait vignette of Cossack Hetman Matvei Ivanovich Platov in full military dress uniform with plumed shako, set within a wreath-bordered medallion inscribed with his name and title along the lower arc. The portrait is flanked at left and right by large Cyrillic letters «КОП» and the numeral «50», with crossed lances, palm fronds, and military trophies filling the lateral fields. A meander-pattern outer border frames the entire design, with the denomination «ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ» spelled out in full along the upper margin and an anti-forgery warning in a plain cartouche at foot. |
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The Rostov-on-Don branch of the State Bank issued this note during the chaotic early months of the White movement's consolidation in southern Russia, when the Don region was nominally under Ataman Krasnov's authority but financial administration remained fragmented and locally improvised. Small denominations like this filled a practical gap — coin had vanished from circulation almost entirely by mid-1918, hoarded or melted, leaving the population dependent on fractional paper of dubious backing.
The "Printed: 30.04.1945" date in the catalog record is almost certainly a data entry artifact, not a genuine printing date.