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10 000 Roubles
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed primarily in red on plain white paper and carries Arabic-script inscriptions across the upper field, including the issuing authority and date rendered in both Western numerals (1921) and the Islamic calendar equivalent (1340). The large denomination numeral '10000' occupies the central zone in bold red letterpress type, flanked by additional Arabic legends on either side. Three circular seal impressions, bearing further Arabic text, appear along the lower margin, lending an official stamp-like character to the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10000 РУБЛЕЙ 10000 РУБЛЕЙ |
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The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic was a short-lived Soviet client state carved out of the former Khanate of Khiva in 1920, after Red Army forces deposed Khan Sayid Abdullah. It lasted less than four years before being dissolved into the Uzbek SSR in 1924. This note belongs to a currency system that had almost no stable economic infrastructure behind it — Khorezm's monetary emissions were as much an assertion of statehood as anything else.
The 10,000 rouble denomination reflects the inflationary pressure that was already tearing through Soviet-aligned currencies in the early 1920s. Surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon; the region's remoteness and political instability meant few notes were preserved after the republic ceased to exist.