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2000 Roubles
| Issuer | Khorezm People's Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed on silk in a bilingual layout combining Arabic script and decorative elements in red and black on a cream ground, with a green guilloche border running the full perimeter. A central oval vignette contains a crescent-and-sun device flanked by two laurel wreaths, all rendered in red letterpress. Arabic calligraphic text fills the lower panel and lateral cartouches, with the denomination value set within a rectangular frame at centre. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on silk with a green guilloche outer border and a central red oval cartouche bearing Arabic script legends. The denomination '2000' and the Cyrillic inscription 'РУБЛЕЙ' appear in black at the upper field, flanked by the date '1921' printed vertically along the left margin. A stylised crescent vignette is positioned at centre within the oval, surrounded by further Arabic text panels. |
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Khorezm — the short-lived Soviet satellite carved from the ruins of the Khanate of Khiva in 1920 — had virtually no industrial infrastructure and certainly no paper mill. The 1921 silk issues were a direct consequence: local authorities turned to woven fabric as a substrate because it was available where conventional banknote paper simply was not.
These silk notes are among the more structurally fragile currency pieces of the early Soviet period. The weave absorbs ink inconsistently, meaning impression quality varies even within the same print run. Khorezm was absorbed into the Uzbek and Turkmen SSRs in 1924, ending the republic's independent monetary existence after barely four years.