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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 lettering | БАКИНСКАЯ ГОРОДСКАЯ УПРАВА 10 РУБЛЕЙ Городской Голова Член Управы Имѣетъ хожденіе въ Бакинскомъ Градоначальствѣ наравнѣ съ кредитными билетами |
| Reverse description | Pale red overall, with an elaborate ornamental guilloche border of acanthus scrollwork framing the central field. The large denomination numeral '10' is printed twice flanking the central Cyrillic text 'РУБЛЕЙ', with a lightly printed '10' guilloche rosette as underprint at centre. A serial number and series prefix appear below the denomination, and a ribbon cartouche at the foot carries the anti-counterfeiting legend and the year '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.