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100 000 Roubles Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
| Issuer | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S717 |
| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with elaborate Oriental arabesque border framing the entire design. The denomination СТО ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ (One Hundred Thousand Roubles) is printed in large Cyrillic text at top centre, with the numeral 100000 at left and a guilloche bar at right. A central rectangular cartouche carries bilingual text in Cyrillic and Arabic scripts affirming the note is secured by all assets of the Republic and is accepted on par with Russian monetary signs; below, signature lines for the Народный Комиссар Финансов (People's Commissar of Finance) and Кассир (Cashier) appear at lower left, with corresponding Arabic-script titles at lower right. The lower margin carries the denomination СТО ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ repeated as a legend. |
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| Reverse lettering | АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА يوز بين منات 100000 ПРОЛЕТАРИИ ВСЕХ СТРАН СОЕДИНЯЙТЕСЬ ГД 1922 بتون جهان نقاری یاساسی قار داشلار |
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The Transcaucasian republics — Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — each briefly maintained their own currency apparatus in the early Soviet period before monetary consolidation swept them away. Azerbaijan's 1921 high-denomination emissions were a direct response to hyperinflation that made lower values functionally useless within months of printing. The 100,000 rouble figure, extraordinary by any prewar standard, was routine denominations territory by mid-1921.
S-prefix Pick numbers indicate these are classified as local or provisional issues rather than central Soviet emissions. The distinction matters: these notes were superseded not by gradual phase-out but by the 1922–1923 introduction of the Transcaucasian Federated Republic's own currency, which itself gave way to Soviet chervontsy.