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50 Kopecks Special Corps of Northern Army under General Rodzianko
| Issuer | Special Corps of the Northern Army (General Rodzianko) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Uniface issue printed in dark green on plain paper. The design is dominated by a central guilloche rosette surrounded by an ornate lathe-work border frame. The note bears the arms or eagle emblem of the corps as the principal vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; reverse is blank. |
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The Special Corps of the Northern Army under General Alexander Rodzianko was one of several White Russian forces operating in the northwestern theater in 1919, pressing toward Petrograd in coordination with Yudenich's broader Northwestern Army offensive. These fractional kopek notes were a direct response to catastrophic small-change shortages — metallic coin had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and even the Bolshevik authorities were struggling with the same problem simultaneously.
The corps issued its own scrip rather than rely on supply from Yudenich's command, a decision that reflected both logistical disconnection and local command autonomy. By late 1919, Rodzianko's force collapsed with the failed Petrograd offensive, and redemption of this currency never occurred.