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50 Roubles Kislovosk
| Issuer | Kislovodsk Branch of the State Bank (Кисловодское Отделение Государственного Банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | The double-headed eagle vignette is centred at the top of the note, flanked on either side by the denomination numeral '50' in plain type. The main text panel carries the issuing authority legend in Cyrillic above the large cheque denomination inscription, with a handwritten serial number below. A circular violet official stamp of the Kislovodsk Branch is applied to the lower left, alongside manuscript signatures of the manager and cashier. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting plain cream-coloured paper with no design elements, text, or ornamentation; fold lines and minor age toning are visible across the surface. |
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Kislovodsk, a spa town in the northern Caucasus, found itself issuing its own emergency currency during the civil war period when central banking authority had effectively collapsed across much of southern Russia. The Kislovodsk Branch of the State Bank was one of dozens of regional institutions that resorted to local emission simply to keep commerce functioning — the Bolsheviks held Moscow, the Whites were pushing through the Caucasus, and standard Petrograd-issued notes were increasingly scarce or distrusted.
P#S965A belongs to the sprawling category of Russian Civil War Notgeld, a numismatic field where provenance and condition documentation matter enormously, given how many notes were printed in small runs on whatever paper stock was available.