50 Roubles, City of Elisavetgrad, 1918

This copy

Accession

OM-00074

Serial

2 В

Series year

1918

Actually issued

1918

city_treasurer

not read uncertain

Handwritten facsimile, legible on the note but not resolved to a name. Compare against a published signature list.

Grade

XF (IBNS)

Crisp and clean, minimal handling. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$16 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

125.5 × 70.4 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarMunicipal issueUkraine

The type

Type

50 Roubles, City of Elisavetgrad, 1918

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — who will take it

Всѣ находящіеся въ городѣ Елисаветградѣ кредитныя учрежденія принимаютъ настоящія боны

All credit institutions located in the city of Elisavetgrad accept these bons

Symbology

City arms

Municipal heraldry on money issued by a town's own credit institutions.

What was happening

Municipal money. When the state stopped supplying currency, cities printed their own against deposits held at the local branch of the State Bank — and said so in the small print, because acceptance depended entirely on people believing that sentence.

Odessa, Zhitomir, Elisavetgrad and dozens of other towns issued these between 1917 and 1920, through repeated changes of occupying power. Some carry Ukrainian text and the karbovanets denomination, some Russian and roubles, depending on who held the city when the plates were cut.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 50 Roubles, City of Elisavetgrad, 1918 in the collection.