Catalog
10 Roubles
| Issuer | Georgian Republic |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red. A central vignette of Saint George on horseback occupies the upper portion of the note. The denomination and date appear at the bottom, framed within a simple border. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red. A vignette of Saint George on horseback appears centrally. Inscriptions in Russian are positioned to the right and in French to the left, with Georgian-script text running along the top and bottom margins. |
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Georgia's brief independence between 1918 and 1921 forced the newly established republic to build a monetary system almost from scratch. The 1919 rouble issues were printed domestically under difficult conditions — imported paper and printing supplies were unreliable throughout this period, and the series as a whole shows considerable variation in paper stock and ink quality across surviving examples.
Soviet forces absorbed Georgia in February 1921, and the rouble issues were rapidly demonetized. Notes that escaped the redemption process did so largely by accident.