25 Roubles, Crimean Regional Government, 1918

This copy

Accession

OM-00096

Serial

ИН 6950

Series year

1918

Actually issued

1918

cabinet_of_the_crimean_regional_government

not read uncertain

Eight cabinet signatures in two rows rather than a manager and cashier. The first reads S. Krym - Solomon Krym chaired the Crimean Regional Government - but the rest are not resolved.

Grade

VG (IBNS)

Edge damage, heavy wear. 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

$4.5 indicative

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

Dimensions

125.6 × 81.4 mm (±0.5, from the scan)

Themes

Russian Civil WarCrimeaWhite movement

The type

Type

25 Roubles, Crimean Regional Government, 1918

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the backing

Обезпечивается всѣмъ достояніемъ Крыма

Secured by the entire property of the Crimea

Symbology

Cabinet signatures as ornament

Eight signatures across two rows, arranged as a design element. A regional government asserting legitimacy through the number of officials willing to sign.

What was happening

Issued by the Crimean Regional Government at Simferopol and secured, in its own words, "by the entire property of the Crimea". The peninsula changed hands repeatedly between 1918 and 1920 and ended as the last redoubt of the White movement; Wrangel's evacuation in November 1920 closed the Russian Civil War in European Russia.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 25 Roubles, Crimean Regional Government, 1918 in the collection.