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25 Roubles Baku
| Issuer | Bakinskaya Gorodskaya Uprava (Baku City Council) |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black on purple and light brown underprint. The note is printed in a single dark tone on a lightly tinted ground, with an ornate guilloche border framing the central text field. The large numeral '25' appears as a pale underprint at centre, flanked by two lines of Cyrillic text attributing the issue to the Baku City Council, with two manuscript signatures below and the date '1918' at foot. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on green underprint. The reverse is dominated by a large, symmetrical arabesque guilloche vignette occupying the central field, printed in brown on a plain ground. The denomination '25' appears in the upper left and lower left corners, the serial number at lower right, with the Cyrillic legend 'ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ РУБЛЕЙ' across the top and the anti-counterfeiting warning inscription along the foot. |
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The Baku City Council issued this note in 1918 during one of the most chaotic administrative successions in the Caucasus — Baku changed hands between the Baku Commune, British forces under Dunsterville, and the Army of Islam within a single year. Municipal scrip of this kind filled the vacuum left by the collapse of reliable Tsarist and Provisional Government currency, and local city councils across the former empire improvised their own instruments out of practical necessity, not monetary ambition.
Baku issues from this period are notoriously prone to condition problems due to low paper quality and heavy local use. The S725 series is among the more frequently encountered of the Transcaucasian municipal emissions, but sound examples are less common than their apparent frequency suggests.