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10 000 Roubles Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics |
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| Year | 1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-brown on grey guilloche underprint. Central oval vignette shows a large neoclassical government building with a flag atop, flanked by trees; denomination of 10 000 printed in large numerals to the left and right. Trilingual inscriptions appear in Cyrillic, Georgian, and Arabic scripts throughout, with serial number repeated at lower left and lower right corners. Three manuscript signatures of the Presidium of the Union Soviet appear at the bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ 10 000 РУБЛИ Один рубль закавказскими бонами равняется одному рублю грузинскими бонами 1923 მასვთი რუბლი 10 000 მნკ რუბლი ამიერ-კავკასიანი ბონი გტო საქართველის ბონის ერთ მანეთს ვაქაფყარ بولونك (١) بر منانى كورجستان بولونك (١) بر منانه برابردير |
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The Transcaucasian Federation — a short-lived political union of Soviet Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — was created partly to resolve bitter territorial disputes between those republics before full incorporation into the USSR in late 1922. This note was issued under that federated structure in 1923, during the same period the Soviet monetary system was being rationalized following catastrophic hyperinflation. The denomination itself reflects that inflation: 10,000 roubles was a practical, everyday figure, not a prestige value.
The federation was dissolved in 1936 when Stalin reorganized the Caucasus into three separate Soviet republics, making the issuing authority one of the more geographically and temporally specific in Soviet numismatic history.