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1 Lan
| Issuer | Tannu Tuva (Russia) |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Blue print on red-brown underprint. The design mirrors that of the Imperial Russian 1 Rouble credit note (cf. P#15), with a stage-like lettered frame enclosing the central text block. A small Coat of Arms of the Russian Empire appears at the left, with the Emperor's imperial monogram positioned at the right. |
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| Reverse description | Black overprint applied to the reverse. A rectangular text panel is placed at the top centre, with additional Cyrillic text written vertically along the left and right edges, and a further Cyrillic inscription running along the lower margin. |
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Tannu Tuva's 1924 currency issue is among the more unusual monetary episodes in Central Asian history. The territory — formally the People's Republic of Tannu Tuva, a Soviet client state nominally independent from 1921 until its quiet absorption into the USSR in 1944 — required its own currency largely as a political formality, to furnish the trappings of statehood. The lan was a unit borrowed from Chinese monetary tradition, reflecting the region's pre-Soviet commercial ties with China rather than any Soviet banking logic.
Pick 1 is the first note of a tiny, short-lived series. The issuing authority had no established central bank in any functional sense.