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500 Roubles Ekaterinodar
| Issuer | Russia - Civil war issues |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black and brown letterpress on olive-green and yellow underprint. The note bears a handwritten date and may carry an additional rubber stamp or handstamp of various local or regional banks, serving as a validation mark. The overall design is typographic in character, consistent with the emergency currency issues produced at Ekaterinodar during the Russian Civil War period. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is essentially plain, printed on unadorned paper with minimal design elements, consistent with the utilitarian emergency-issue character of this Civil War-era local note. Faint impressions from the obverse are visible through the lightweight paper stock. |
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Ekaterinodar — present-day Krasnodar — served as the administrative center of the Kuban People's Republic and later the White Army's Volunteer Army command in the south. This note was issued under the Kuban Regional Government, one of several competing anti-Bolshevik authorities producing their own paper currency simultaneously across the former empire's southern territories in 1918. The proliferation of local issues was not merely expedient — it was a deliberate assertion of political legitimacy against Moscow.
The S498 series encompasses several signature and date varieties; the "E" suffix in the Pick reference designates a specific variant within that run, likely distinguished by signatory combination or minor typographic difference rather than a distinct printing.