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25 000 Roubles Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia
| Issuer | Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 25 000 Roubles (25 000) |
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| Reverse description | A large star-shaped guilloche rosette occupies the centre of the note, with a circular arms vignette at its heart bearing a hammer-and-sickle motif within a crescent. The denomination 25,000 appears in bold numerals on both sides in Cyrillic, Georgian, and Arabic scripts. Trilingual text in Russian, Georgian, and Azerbaijani runs along the upper and lower margins, with the year 1923 at the bottom centre. |
| Reverse lettering | ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ ТЫСЯЧ РУБЛЕЙ РУБЛЕЙ 25000 Один рубль закавказских бонами равняется одному рублю грузинскими бонами. 1923 |
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The Federation of Socialist Soviet Republics of Transcaucasia — encompassing Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia — existed as a distinct political entity for only a brief window before being absorbed into the USSR in late 1922, though it continued issuing its own currency into 1923 as administrative consolidation lagged behind political decree. This note belongs to that awkward transitional moment when the federation was technically already subordinate to Moscow but still operating its own monetary apparatus.
Transcaucasian currency suffered catastrophic inflation during this period, which explains denominations reaching into the tens of thousands. The 25,000-rouble figure was not extraordinary purchasing power — it was a symptom of a currency in free fall.