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50 Roubles North Caucasian Soviet Socialist Republic
| Issuer | Temporary Central Administration of Branches of the People's Bank of the North Caucasian Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress on yellow-brown underprint within a dotted rectangular border. The large Cyrillic title БОН occupies the upper centre, flanked by the denomination numeral 50 in each corner. The issuing authority inscription in two lines runs across the upper field, and the value ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ is set in bold Cyrillic across the centre. Three manuscript signature lines appear in the lower portion, attributed to the Управляющий (Manager), Гл. Контролер ЦИК (Chief Controller of the Central Executive Committee), and Казначей (Treasurer), with a serial number prefix АГ-21 at the upper left. |
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| Reverse lettering | БОН ОБЕСПЕЧЕН ОБЩИМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ СЕВЕРО-КАВКАЗСКОЙ СОВЕТСКОЙ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ И ИМЕЕТ ХОЖДЕНИЕ НАРАВНЕ С КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ В ПРЕДЕЛАХ ВСЕЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ. 1918 |
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The North Caucasian SSR was a short-lived Bolshevik entity carved out of the turbulent southern front in 1918, its territory contested almost from the moment it was proclaimed. The Volunteer Army under Denikin was pressing hard through the region, and whatever banking infrastructure existed was improvised under military pressure — the "Temporary Central Administration" in this note's issuer name is not bureaucratic modesty but an honest description of the situation on the ground.
Regional Soviet emissions from 1918 vary enormously in print quality, and the North Caucasian issues are among the more rudimentary. The republic itself collapsed before the year was out.