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1000 Roubles
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1920-1925) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set within a simple ruled border with a decorative dentilated outer frame. A central oval vignette enclosed within a fish-eye cartouche carries the denomination and issuing authority text in Arabic script, flanked by ornamental side panels. An inscription band in Arabic script runs across the upper portion of the note above the central vignette area. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a horizontal composition with a large central oval medallion bearing Cyrillic text, flanked symmetrically by two smaller circular guilloche rosettes rendered in a fine lathe-work pattern. The year '1923' and its Arabic-numeral equivalent appear below the central medallion, with a band of Arabic script legend running along both the upper and lower borders within a dentilated frame. |
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Khorezm — the short-lived Soviet satellite carved out of the former Khanate of Khiva — issued its own currency during the early 1920s before being formally absorbed into the Soviet system and dissolved in 1924. The republic's monetary issues were largely a practical necessity: Moscow's writ ran thin across Central Asia, and local trade required local instruments. Khorezm's higher denominations, including this 1000 Rouble note, were produced rapidly under conditions that left little room for engraving sophistication.
The series is genuinely scarce in Western collections, partly because so few survived the Soviet consolidation and subsequent destruction of regional currency stocks.