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1 000 000 000 Roubles Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1924 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The circular arms of the Transcaucasian S.F.S.R. — a hammer-and-sickle over mountains within a wreath, surmounted by a five-pointed star — occupy the left half of the note against a fine guilloche underprint. To the right, a classical allegorical female figure is seated, draped in robes and resting amid an abundance of fruits and agricultural produce. Trilingual panel inscriptions in Georgian, Armenian, and Azerbaijani appear across the upper border, with the denomination ONE BILLION in Georgian script along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 მილიარდი მანეთი С.Ф.С.Р. ᲐᲛᲘᲔᲠᲙᲐᲕᲙᲐᲡᲘᲘᲡ БИР МИЛЛИАРД МАНАТ |
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The Transcaucasian SFSR was a short-lived federation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, created in 1922 partly to dilute nationalist tensions and partly to ease the region into Soviet economic structures. This note was issued during the catastrophic hyperinflationary collapse of the early Soviet ruble system — the denomination reaching one billion roubles is not an eccentricity but a direct record of how completely the currency had disintegrated by 1924.
The federation itself was dissolved in 1936 when Stalin reorganized the Caucasus into three separate Soviet republics, making the entire TSFSR note series among the briefest-lived regional emissions in Soviet monetary history.