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25 Roubles Batum
| Issuer | Batum Treasury |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | A small central vignette of a palm tree is enclosed within a circular Cyrillic legend reading БАТУМСКАГО КАЗНАЧЕЙСТВА РАЗМЕННЫЙ ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАКЪ. The denomination numeral 25 appears in each of the four corners within rounded frames. A brief two-line Cyrillic inscription occupies the lower portion of the note. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, with the plain light-coloured paper left blank. A SPECIMEN cancellation is applied diagonally across the centre by perforation, indicating a cancelled or specimen example not issued for circulation. |
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Batum — the Black Sea port then under British military occupation — had its own improvised currency problem in 1919. The British administration controlled the city following Ottoman withdrawal, but the surrounding region was contested between Georgia, Armenia, and various forces loyal to or fighting the remnants of Russian authority. The Batum Treasury notes emerged from this administrative vacuum rather than from any stable financial institution.
At 48 × 31 mm, this is among the smallest emergency issues of the entire Russian Civil War period — closer to a postage stamp in physical scale than to conventional paper money. Printing locally under occupation conditions kept quality minimal.