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10 Roubles Baku
| Issuer | Baku City Administration (Бакинская Городская Управа) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Dark blue and red on lilac underprint. A scrollwork banner at top carries the Cyrillic inscription of the issuing authority, beneath which the municipal coat of arms of Baku is printed in red at centre. The denomination numerals '10' appear in red on either side, with 'РУБЛЕЙ' in large red letterpress text; two manuscript signatures of city officials appear in the lower portion alongside a text block stating the note's equivalence to credit currency. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 РУБЛЕЙ 10 ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ 1918 |
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Baku's brief period of self-administration in 1918 was an extraordinarily chaotic one. The city changed hands multiple times that year — from the Baku Commune (a Bolshevik-led entity that survived only until late July), to the Centro-Caspian Dictatorship backed by British forces, and finally to the Ottoman-supported Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in September. The Baku City Administration (Городская Управа) issued emergency fractional and low-denomination notes precisely because national and regional currency supplies had broken down entirely.
P#S724 falls into a category of provisional municipal issues that were never intended as permanent monetary instruments — they were stopgaps, printed under pressure with limited resources. The 1918 Baku municipal series is genuinely scarce in any condition, partly because circulation in a warzone tends to be destructive.