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10 000 Roubles Turkestan District
| Issuer | Turkestan Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 10 000 Roubles (10 000) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a shield-shaped vignette bears the Soviet arms with hammer and sickle surmounted by a rising sun emblem, beneath which Cyrillic and Arabic inscriptions appear; a manuscript signature of the People's Commissar of Finance is placed below. The central panel carries bilingual text in Cyrillic and Arabic within a decorative guilloche border, with the serial number repeated at upper and lower right and the date 1920 at lower centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | РАСЧЁТНЫЙ КРЕДИТНЫЙ БИЛЕТ ТУРКЕСТАНСКОЙ СОВЕТСКОЙ РЕСПУБЛИКИ ДЕСЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ Кассир Народный Комиссар Финансов АО 1027 1920 پرولتاریای همه کشورها متحد شوید |
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The Turkestan Soviet Republic occupied an awkward administrative position — nominally autonomous within the RSFSR but geographically isolated from Moscow during the Civil War, which forced it to issue its own currency well beyond what central planners had intended. This 10,000 Rouble note belongs to a series that emerged from that isolation, printed locally under conditions that were anything but stable.
Basmachi resistance throughout 1920 meant large portions of Turkestan were functionally outside Soviet control, and notes like this circulated in a region where the issuing authority itself could not guarantee territorial continuity from one month to the next.