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50 Roubles North Caucasian Emirate
| Issuer | Краевой Исполнительный Комитет Советов Северного Кавказа (Regional Executive Committee of Soviets of the North Caucasus) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of crossed wheat and pine branches tied with a ribbon bow, bearing the Cyrillic inscription of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic and the slogan 'ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН, СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ'. The denomination '50' appears in a decorative cartouche at upper right, with the large Cyrillic legend 'ПЯТЬ ДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ' across the centre. Three manuscript signatures of issuing officials appear at lower centre, with serial prefix 'А-0' at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | ВЫПУЩЕН НА ОСНОВАНИИ ОБЩЕГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЭМИССИОННОГО ПРАВА ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ |
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The North Caucasian Emirate attribution in the trade name is misleading — this note was issued by the Bolshevik regional authority, the Kraevoy Ispolnitelny Komitet, not by Uzun Haji's short-lived emirate, which issued no paper currency of its own. The confusion persists in catalog references and auction descriptions alike.
The North Caucasus in 1919 was contested by the Volunteer Army, various mountain republic governments, and Soviet organs simultaneously, which meant notes like this circulated in a fractured, often violent monetary environment where acceptance was never guaranteed and issuers changed within weeks.