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Don Rubles (part 4)

1,000 rubles of the sample of 1919-printed in Novorossiysk


1,000 Don rubles were traditionally large in size – 198 mm x 109 mm, although they do not reach the Nikolaev 'Katenka'.
For the Don statehood, 1918 was a significant year: the Bolshevik Don Republic of the Reds was replaced by the Cossack republic of the whites.
On May 5, 1918, Major General P. N. Krasnov, who was elected Don ataman, signed an order on the formation of the All-Great Don Army.
The new ataman immediately showed his pro-German orientation-he sent a telegram to Kaiser Wilhelm II that the All-Great Don Army did not consider itself at war with Germany.
He, by his order No. 85 of 19.05.1918, legalized the use of the German mark on the territory of the All-Great Don Army, setting the exchange rate: 1 mark =75 kopecks.
So the stamps on the Don went on a par with rubles until December 2018.
The orientation of ataman Krasnov towards Germany could not please either the Entente countries or the officers of the All-Russian Armed Forces who had previously shed their blood on the German front.
In June 1919, under the pressure of A. I. Denikin, ataman Krasnov resigned, and the All-Great Don Army was led by Lieutenant General A. P. Bogaevsky.
With the arrival of ataman A. P. Bogaevsky, the Don rubles expanded the scope of their circulation – they began to be used more widely for the financial needs of the VSSYUR, in fact becoming the single currency of the white movement in the South of Russia.
On the design of the Don rubles, a departure from the narrowly Cossack orientation was expressed in the appearance of a new series of rubles called 'March on Moscow': on the back of the bill with a face value of 1,000 rubles, the image of Ruthenia – an allegory of Russia dominates, and on its shield there is an inscription - 'Great United Indivisible Russia'.
Unlike the two-digit series of 'Cossack rubles', the new bills had a five-digit numbering – I have this VI 36101.
Don bills with a face value of 1,000 rubles began to be printed in July 1918 in Rostov, in November 1919 Novorossiysk and Simferopol joined the printing of 'thousand – dollar bills', in April 1920-Feodosia.

Донские рубли

1000 рублей 1919 г., Россия

Country : Россия
Denomination : 1000 рубль
Year : 1919
Quantity :
Issuer : Ростовская н/Д Контора Государственного Банка
Series :
Valid from :
Valid till :
Cancelled :
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