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1000 Kuponi

Issuer National Bank of Georgia
Year 1993
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Value 1000 Kuponi (1000 GEK)
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Obverse lettering 1000 კუპონი 1000 სებ საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკი
(Translation: 1000 Kuponi, NBG National Bank of Georgia)
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Reverse lettering 1000
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Georgia's early 1990s kuponi series was emergency currency in every practical sense — issued as the country scrambled to establish monetary infrastructure following independence from the Soviet Union. The kuponi replaced Soviet rubles on a temporary basis, intended as a transitional instrument while a permanent national currency was prepared. That permanent currency, the lari, didn't arrive until 1995, by which point rampant inflation had rendered high-denomination kuponi notes nearly worthless in real terms.

The "Printed: 30.04.1945" data is almost certainly a catalog or transcription anomaly — no Georgian national currency existed in 1945.