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500 Roubles Armavir
| Issuer | Armavir Branch of the State Bank (Армавирское отделение Государственного банка) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Plain check-style document with a light guilloche underprint. The heading in Cyrillic letterpress reads ТВЕРДЫЙ ГАРАНТИРОВАННЫЙ ЧЕКЪ followed by the issuing authority and denomination НА 500 РУБ. The body text constitutes a payment order to the bearer for five hundred roubles, dated 1918, with a vertically printed series and serial number in the left margin. Two handwritten signatures appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Protection description | Circular red ink official seal of the Armavir Branch of the State Bank applied to the reverse. |
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Armavir, a trading hub in the Kuban region, briefly fell under multiple administrations during the Civil War — Bolshevik, then White Army, then Bolshevik again by early 1920. This note belongs to the chaotic interval when local branches of the State Bank, cut off from Moscow and from any reliable currency supply, simply printed their own obligations. The Armavir branch was one of dozens across southern Russia doing exactly that in 1918.
Provincial emergency issues like this one were produced with whatever printing resources were locally available. The single security feature — an official seal — reflects not negligence but the reality of a branch operating without specialized equipment.