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500 Roubles Zhytomyr - Azov Don Commercial Bank
| Issuer | Azov-Don Commercial Bank, Zhytomyr Branch (Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк, Житомирское Отделение) |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ЧЕК ПРИЗНАЕТСЯ ДЕЙСТВИТЕЛЬНЫМ В ТЕЧЕНИЕ ДЕСЯТИ ДНЕЙ СО ВРЕМЕНИ ЕГО ВЫДАЧИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ Р. 500.- Житомирское Отделение Казначейство г. АЗОВСКО-ДОНСКОЙ КОММЕРЧЕСКИЙ БАНК, ЖИТОМИРСКОЕ ОТДЕЛЕНИЕ заплатите 26 Марта. 191_ г. Прошу перечислить с моего текущего счета на предъявителю сего пятьсот рублей Азовско-Донской Коммерческий Банк Отделение в Житомире В № 026908 Управляющий Бухгалтер |
| Reverse description | Unadorned cream paper reverse with a block of Cyrillic text in letterpress, stating the conditions of validity: the cheque remains valid after ten days and is to be exchanged for cash banknotes at the Zhytomyr Branch of the State Bank. Below, the heading Житомирское Отделение Государственного Банка appears with lines for Управляющий (Manager) and Контролер (Controller) signatures, one of which bears a manuscript signature. A faint underprint repeating 500 РУБЛЕЙ is visible diagonally across the field. |
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The Azov-Don Commercial Bank was one of the largest private commercial banks in pre-revolutionary Russia, with its head office in Petrograd and branches spread across the former empire. During the Civil War period, the collapse of central monetary authority forced regional branches to issue their own emergency obligations — this Zhytomyr branch note is a product of that breakdown, circulating in a city that changed hands repeatedly between Ukrainian, Bolshevik, and White forces between 1918 and 1920.
Private bank emergency issues from this period were rarely redeemed. The parent institution was nationalized by the Bolsheviks in December 1917, which technically made the branch's subsequent note issuance an act of financial improvisation with no backing authority behind it.