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100 Roubles Transcaucasian Commissariat
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Commissariat |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ЗАКАВКАЗСКИЙ КОМИССАРИАТ 100 СТО РУБЛЕЙ ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНЫ КЪ ОБРАЩЕНІЮ НАРАВНѢ СЪ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ КРЕДИТНЫМИ БИЛЕТАМИ Председатель Комиссариата Временный Казначей Финансовъ 1918 г. |
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| Reverse lettering | СТО РУБЛЕЙ 100 ЗА ПОДДѢЛКУ БОНОВЪ ВИНОВНЫЕ ПОДВЕРГАЮТСЯ НАКАЗАНІЮ КАКъ ЗА ПОДДЕЛКУ КРЕДИТНЫХЪ БИЛЕТОВЪ |
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The Transcaucasian Commissariat existed for less than six months — from November 1917 to April 1918 — a fragile anti-Bolshevik coalition of Georgian Mensheviks, Armenian Dashnaks, and Azerbaijani Musavatists that could agree on little except opposition to Moscow. These notes were issued into that vacuum, functioning as emergency currency for a territory that had not yet decided what it was. The Commissariat dissolved before most of its paper had a chance to circulate widely, replaced almost immediately by the short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic and then three separate successor states.
Surviving examples in any condition are genuinely scarce given the brevity and chaos of the issuing authority's existence.