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25 Roubles
| Issuer | Government Bank, Yerevan Branch |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 25 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Brown uniface cheque-style note issued by the Erivan Branch of the State Bank of the Republic of Armenia, with text printed entirely in Cyrillic script. The upper portion carries the branch and bank name in bold letterpress, below which appears the special government treasury account designation, series, number, and denomination of 25 Roubles; the date 'Эривань, Августъ 1919 г.' is printed in the central field. A text block states that the bearer is entitled to receive twenty-five roubles from the Erivan Branch of the State Bank, with two manuscript signatures of the Minister-Chairman and the Managing Minister of Finance at the bottom, above a legal tender declaration. |
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| Variants | P#16a - issued note P#16x - misprint with text "Гочударчтвеннаго" P#16y - misprint with text "двадцашь" |
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Armenia's short-lived first republic issued this note through the Yerevan branch of what had been the Russian imperial banking network — the Government Bank infrastructure simply carried over after the collapse of Transcaucasian federation arrangements in 1918. The new Armenian government had virtually no time to establish an independent monetary framework before Soviet forces arrived in late 1920, meaning this entire series had an effective lifespan of under two years.
Counterfeiting was a documented problem across all Armenian issues of this period, compounded by primitive local printing facilities and paper supply disruptions from ongoing regional conflict with Ottoman and later Turkish nationalist forces.