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25 Roubles Batum
| Issuer | Batum Branch of the State Treasury (Батумское Казначейство) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ БАТУМСКОГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА 25 РУБ ПОДДЕЛКА ПРЕСЛЕДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ |
| Reverse description | Plain pale underprint background with a large manuscript authorisation signature applied in blue-violet ink, occupying the majority of the reverse surface. No additional printed design elements are present, consistent with the simple emergency issue character of this local Treasury token. |
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Batum — now Batumi — was under British military occupation from late 1918 through July 1920, an awkward interlude during which the port city was administered as a separate entity while Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan all contested the Caucasus. This note was issued by the local branch of the State Treasury during that occupation period, when normal supply lines to central currency printing facilities were cut and local authorities had to improvise. The result was one of the smallest-format emergency issues in the entire Russian Civil War currency canon.
Printed locally, the crude execution reflects what was actually available in Batum at the time — not incompetence, but genuine material scarcity.