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100 000 Roubles Banque Nationale de Géorgie
| Issuer | Banque Nationale de Géorgie (National Bank of Georgia) |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned light-toned note with a central ornamental vignette at left incorporating the Georgian Soviet emblem, flanked by the denomination 100,000 printed vertically along the left margin. The face carries bilingual text in Georgian script and French, with the institution name საქართველოს ს. ს. რესპუბლიკის ბანკი and Bon de la BANQUE NATIONALE de GEORGIE inscribed. Three manuscript signatures appear below the central text block, with the serial number and date 1922 г. completing the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed on thin paper, essentially serving as the back of a bond-style obligation note. The central element is a large guilloche cartouche enclosing the numeral 100000 in bold, with the Georgian word for maneti (მანეთი) below. The remainder of the reverse shows the obverse text printed in mirror impression through the thin paper stock, with the serial number faintly visible at the lower margin. |
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Georgia's short-lived Democratic Republic had already fallen to Bolshevik forces in February 1921 by the time notes of this denomination entered circulation, meaning the National Bank was issuing currency under Soviet occupation while still nominally functioning under its pre-annexation institutional name. The 1922 dating places this squarely in the chaotic interregnum before the Transcaucasian Federation's own monetary apparatus took full control.
The P#S766 "S" prefix in Pick is telling — catalogued as a semi-official or provisional issue, reflecting genuine uncertainty about the issuing authority's legal standing at the moment of printing. Hyperinflationary pressures across the former Russian empire drove denominations into the hundreds of thousands almost overnight.