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500 Roubles Crimea
| Issuer | Crimean Regional Treasury (Крымское Краевое Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Обязательство Крымского Краевого Казначейства. На сумму ПЯТЬСОТ (500) руб. ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ |
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| Reverse lettering | Обязательство Крымского Краевого Казначейства. На сумму ПЯТЬСОТ (500) руб. ПЯТЬСОТ РУБЛЕЙ |
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The Crimean Regional Treasury operated during one of the peninsula's most chaotic intervals — 1918 saw Crimea pass through Bolshevik control, German occupation following the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and then the German-backed Crimean Regional Government under General Sulkevich, all within a single year. These treasury notes were issued under that German-sponsored administration, which lasted only from June to November 1918 before collapsing when Berlin's armistice ended its patronage.
Printed locally in Simferopol rather than sent abroad — unlike many provincial Russian Civil War emissions — the notes reflect the limited production means available to a government that knew it was provisional. Paper quality and print registration vary considerably across surviving examples, a direct consequence of wartime supply constraints on the local presses.