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10 000 Roubles Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia - Erivan
| Issuer | Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 10 000 Roubles (10 000) |
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| Obverse lettering | տասը հազար մանէթ |
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| Reverse lettering | PROLETAIRES DE TOUS LES PAYS, UNISSEZ-VOUS! СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА АРМЕНИИ ОБЕСПЕЧИВАЕТСЯ ВСЕМ ДОСТОЯНИЕМ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ИМЕЕТ ХОЖДЕНИЕ НАРАВНЕ С ДЕНЕЖНЫМИ ЗНАКАМИ СОВЕТСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИК |
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The Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia existed as an independent Soviet republic for less than two years before being absorbed into the Transcaucasian SFSR in March 1922. This note was issued during that brief window, when the newly Sovietized Armenian government needed functioning currency almost immediately after the Red Army's takeover in late November 1920 — there was no time to commission sophisticated printing, and local resources were severely constrained by years of war, famine, and the aftermath of the 1915 deportations.
P#S680 belongs to a series of high-denomination emergency issues that ballooned in value as inflation made smaller notes functionally useless within months of printing.