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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The face is printed in rose-red on a plain paper ground, with an elaborate interlaced arabesque border enclosing the entire design. The Soviet Armenian state arms appears at top centre within the ornamental framework, above the large Armenian-script denomination numeral '10000' and the word for 'Roubles' in Armenian. Two manuscript signatures and the date '1921' appear along the lower portion, flanked by Armenian-script text panels at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The back is printed in rose-red on plain paper and carries a central octagonal guilloche vignette with the denomination '10000 ROUBLES' inscribed within. The heading 'СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА АРМЕНИИ' appears in Cyrillic at the top centre, with the Communist slogan 'PROLETAIRES DE TOUS LES PAYS, UNISSEZ-VOUS!' running along the uppermost border in French. Parallel text blocks in Cyrillic, Armenian, Georgian, and Arabic script fill the lateral and lower panels, stating the note's legal tender status and the backing of the Republic. |
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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.