1 Rouble Batum

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.