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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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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A seated allegorical figure of Mercury at left, rendered in fine engraved vignette style, holds a caduceus and rests beside an anchor, open book, and shield. The denomination «Десять Рублей» (Ten Roubles) is printed in large stylised Cyrillic lettering at centre-right, with a text inscription above stating the note circulates on a par with State Credit Bills. Two manuscript signatures of the People's Commissar and Head of the Finance Department appear at lower centre, with serial number printed at upper left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | ИМѢЕТЪ ХОЖДЕНІЕ НАРАВНѢ СЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ Десять Рублей Народный Комиссаръ Завѣдующій фин. Отд. |
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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.