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50 Roubles North Caucasian Soviet Socialist Republic
| Issuer | Краевой Исполнительный Комитет Совета Северного Кавказа (Regional Executive Committee of the Soviet of the North Caucasus) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At left, a circular vignette within a wreath of wheat ears bears the Cyrillic inscription of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, with crossed hammer and sickle and the proletarian motto below. The centre carries the large Cyrillic denomination text ПЯТЬ ДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ, with a guilloche-bordered rectangular panel to the right stating circulation parity with state currency. Three manuscript signature lines appear in the lower portion for the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, the Commissar of Finance, and the Chief Treasurer, with serial number A-6 at upper left and lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pale green and buff tones, with ornamental guilloche borders framing the four sides and wheat ear vignettes at the corners and centre. A single wheat ear is printed diagonally across the middle of the note. The central text panel, in bold Cyrillic letterpress, states that the note is issued on the basis of the general state right of emission, with an anti-counterfeiting warning below. The year 1918 appears at the top centre, with the denomination values repeated in Cyrillic at the margins. |
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The North Caucasus Regional Executive Committee issued this note during one of the most chaotic theaters of the Russian Civil War — a region contested simultaneously by Volunteer Army forces, the Red Army, Cossack atamans, and several short-lived local governments between 1918 and 1920. The committee's authority over its own territory was never stable, and the notes it issued circulated under conditions of near-constant military disruption.
P#S457 belongs to the broad category of "provisional" Soviet-era regionals that filled the vacuum left by the collapse of Tsarist and Provisional Government currency. Counterfeiting was rampant across the North Caucasus in this period, and multiple issuing bodies were printing simultaneously — making authentication of surviving examples genuinely complicated.