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1 Rouble
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1 Rouble |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in black letterpress on plain paper and enclosed within a simple ruled border. The upper portion carries several lines of Arabic-script text forming the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions, above a central starburst vignette. The Cyrillic numeral inscription and the date 1922 appear in the lower register alongside further Arabic-script legends identifying the Khorezm Soviet Republic. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in rose-pink with a central ornamental rosette-and-cross guilloche medallion set against a horizontally lined underprint. Four panels of Arabic-script text flank the central vignette on all sides, and the entire design is contained within a decorative rectangular border of repeated geometric motifs. |
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Khorezm — the short-lived Soviet satellite carved from the old Khanate of Khiva in 1920 — issued its own currency while nominally independent, before being absorbed into the USSR and dissolved entirely in 1924. This 1 Rouble belongs to the 1922 series issued at the very end of that window, when the republic's days were already numbered and Moscow's grip was tightening.
The printing quality across the Khorezm series is notoriously poor, a reflection of the republic's near-total lack of industrial infrastructure. Notes from this issue are among the more obscure survivals of Central Asian Soviet-era paper.