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50 Roubles Odessa
| Issuer | City of Odessa |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ РУБЛЕЙ Разменный билет г. Одессы 1918 г. Подделка преследуется Законом |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green tones and carries two circular vignettes: at left, a neoclassical building with colonnaded facade (the Odessa Stock Exchange or Opera House), and at right, a second civic building, both enclosed within ornamental guilloche frames. A central anchor-bearing heraldic medallion surmounts the composition, flanked by laurel branches, with the denomination numeral 50 at the centre. The serial number А 100907 and the year 1918 г. appear at the top, and the word РУБЛЕЙ is inscribed in a cartouche at the lower centre. |
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Odessa in 1918 was a city cycling through occupying forces with disorienting speed — German troops, then French, then various White Army factions, each period generating its own emergency paper. This note was issued by the city itself during a window of relative municipal autonomy, one of dozens of local emission authorities that filled the void left by the collapse of tsarist banking infrastructure.
The P#S338 series is among the more frequently encountered of Odessa's municipal issues, though condition varies sharply — the paper stock used was poor, and folding damage along horizontal creases is nearly universal in surviving examples.