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10 Roubles Soviet Baku
| Issuer | Baku City Soviet of Municipal Economy |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S731 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by large numeral «10» repeated at left and right corners within ornamental rosettes, with the issuing authority inscription «СОВѢТЪ БАКИНСКАГО ГОРОДСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА» across the upper portion in bold Cyrillic lettering. The central field carries a lightly printed arms underprint, with the denomination «рублей» in large text flanked by numerals «10», and a framed anti-counterfeiting warning cartouche at lower centre flanked by foliate ornaments. The year «1918» appears at lower left and right. |
| Reverse lettering | СОВѢТЪ БАКИНСКАГО ГОРОДСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА 10 рублей ПОДДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ 1918 |
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Baku in 1918 was one of the most contested cities in the world — briefly under Bolshevik control as the Baku Commune (February to July 1918), then seized by the Centrocaspian Dictatorship, then the Ottoman-backed Army of Islam, and finally the British before the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic consolidated control in late 1919. This note belongs to the Soviet municipal phase, issued by the City Soviet of Municipal Economy as the commune struggled to maintain basic economic function under blockade and ethnic violence.
The issuing authority is distinctly local — not a state bank, not a regional treasury. Municipal soviets issuing their own scrip was common across the Caucasus in 1918, each city effectively printing to survive.