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100 000 Roubles Transcaucasian S.S.R. Railroad
| Issuer | Управление Железных Дорог С.С.Р. Закавказья (Transcaucasian S.S.R. Railroad Administration) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | УПРАВЛЕНИЕ ЖЕЛЕЗНЫХ ДОРОГ РАСЧЕТНЫЙ ЗНАК СТО ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ КОЛЛЕКТИВНОГО СНАБЖЕНИЯ С.С.Р. ЗАКАВКАЗЬЯ Сер. А За Нач. дорог Комиссар дорог |
| Reverse description | Plain purple guilloche underprint across the entire surface with a lighter central panel containing a block of explanatory text in Cyrillic letterpress. The text states that this settlement token is issued by the Railroad Administration of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Transcaucasia against maintenance funds for collective supply purposes, and is obligatory for acceptance at distribution and release points of the Transcaucasian Railroad collective supply. Two manuscript signature lines for the Chief of Roads and the Railway Commissar appear at the lower left and lower center respectively. |
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Railway administrations across the former Russian Empire issued their own currency during the early 1920s when central monetary authority had effectively collapsed — this note is one product of that breakdown. The Transcaucasian railroad network, spanning Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, was among the most strategically critical infrastructure in the region, and its administration apparently needed functioning scrip to pay workers when rouble issuance from Moscow was either nonexistent or worthless by the time it arrived.
The S.S.R. designation dates this to after Soviet consolidation of the Transcaucasus but before the formal creation of the Transcaucasian S.F.S.R. in 1922 — a narrow window.