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1 Rouble Batum
| Issuer | Batum Treasury (Батумское Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in ochre-yellow on plain paper. A central circular vignette contains a palm tree grouping, surrounded by a Cyrillic circular legend reading БАТУМСКОГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ. Four corner medallions each carry the numeral 1. Below the central vignette, a denomination panel reads РУБ., with a warning inscription at the foot of the note in Cyrillic. |
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| Obverse lettering | РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ БАТУМСКАГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА РУБ. 1 ПОДДЪЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
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Batum — now Batumi, Georgia — was under British military occupation from December 1918, administered as a protectorate while competing claims from Georgia, Armenia, and the nascent Turkish nationalist movement circled the territory. The Batum Treasury notes were a British-authorized stopgap, issued to manage a severe local currency shortage when neither Russian Imperial nor Transcaucasian notes were reliably accepted in the bazaars.
P#S736 is among the smallest-denomination issues in the series and, given its tiny physical size, was almost certainly printed locally under austere conditions. The British withdrew in July 1920, handing Batum to the Menshevik Georgian government — by which point these notes were already functionally obsolete.