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500 Roubles North Caucasian Socialist Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Краевой Исполнительный Комитет Советов Север-Кавказа (Regional Executive Committee of the Soviets of the North Caucasus) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 500 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in tones of gold, green and pink, dominated by a large circular vignette at the left centre containing a hammer and sickle device set against a rising sun, surrounded by a wreath of grain. A bold Art Nouveau scrollwork of interlaced foliage in yellow occupies the centre and right, with the large numeral 500 rendered in pale guilloche behind the ornamental elements. The inscription identifying the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic is set within a rectangular panel at the upper right, and three lines of Cyrillic legal text appear at the foot. Series prefix letters appear at upper left and lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ Российск. Социал. Федер. Совет. Республика ВЫПУЩЕНО НА ОСНОВАНИИ ОБЩЕГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЭМИССИОННОГО ПРАВА ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ А-4 |
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The North Caucasian Soviet Republic existed for less than a year — proclaimed in January 1918 and extinguished by Volunteer Army forces before the end of the year. Its paper money was a bureaucratic necessity, not a banking exercise: the regional Soviet needed a medium of exchange in territory it controlled only loosely and briefly. These notes circulated alongside a chaotic mix of Tsarist, Provisional Government, and other local issues, with no meaningful backing behind any of them.
P#S460 falls into the "S" (Specialized) Pick sequence precisely because the issuing authority was a short-lived revolutionary regional body rather than a recognized central institution.