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10 Roubles Batum
| Issuer | Batum Municipal Government |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 48 × 31 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of two palm trees within a circular Cyrillic legend reading «РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК БАТУМСКОГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА». The denomination «10» appears in each of the four corners, with «РУБ» abbreviated above. A warning inscription in Cyrillic at the foot of the note reads «ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМ». The overall design is printed in red on plain white paper in a simple typographic style consistent with emergency local currency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white paper bearing two handwritten manuscript signatures in purple ink, one above the other, with a small serial number «1» visible in the lower left corner. No printed design elements are present; the reverse serves solely as an authentication surface for the authorising signatories. |
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Batum — the Black Sea port now known as Batumi — was under British military occupation when this note was issued, having been seized from Ottoman forces in late 1918. The municipal government produced a series of fractional and low-denomination emergency notes to address a near-total collapse of reliable small change; Georgian, Russian Imperial, and Transcaucasian issues were all circulating simultaneously with wildly inconsistent acceptance.
At 48 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest emergency issues from the entire Caucasus region — closer in size to a postage stamp than conventional currency. The extreme format was almost certainly a paper economy measure.