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25 000 Manat / 10 Kopecks Azerbaijan
| Issuer | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Size | 30 x 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows a standing soldier bearing the Azerbaijani tricolour flag, with a crescent and red star above to the left, all set against a blue guilloche underprint. The border is formed by a green arabesque lattice underprint with the denomination numerals in corner cartouches. A large black handstamp cancellation is applied across the right half. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on coarse cream-beige fibrous paper with visible inclusions throughout the stock, consistent with a low-denomination emergency or postal currency issue of the early Soviet transitional period. |
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This note exists because of one of the more chaotic monetary situations in early Soviet history. Azerbaijan's SSR briefly maintained its own currency before full absorption into the Transcaucasian Federation's ruble system, and this transitional period produced some genuinely odd denominations — including this one, which carried a face value simultaneously expressed in Manat and Kopecks as the old and new systems were being reconciled.
At 30 x 20 mm, it is among the smallest banknotes ever officially issued anywhere, a size driven by wartime paper scarcity rather than any design philosophy.