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25 Roubles Soviet Socialist Republic of Armenia - Aleksandropol
| Issuer | Aleksandropolsky Gorodskoy Obshchestvennyy Bank (Alexandropol Municipal Public Bank) |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse bearing a two-line Cyrillic acceptance inscription in manuscript-style print, stating that this cheque is accepted by the Alexandropol Municipal Public Bank and is subject to payment upon presentation. Below the text appear handwritten signatures of bank officials, including a member of the board and the cashier. |
| Reverse lettering | Настоящий чекъ акцентованъ Александропольскимъ Городскимъ Общественнымъ Банкомъ и подлежитъ оплатѣ по предъявленіи. Чл. Правленія Кассиръ |
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Aleksandropol — now Gyumri — was briefly under Armenian Republican control in 1919 before Soviet forces consolidated power in late 1920. The Aleksandropolsky Gorodskoy Obshchestvennyy Bank was a municipal institution issuing local emergency scrip during a period when the Transcaucasus was cycling through overlapping authorities, currencies, and military occupations. Notes like this one filled a vacuum left by the near-total collapse of usable circulating medium.
Local printing in Alexandropol meant limited press technology, and the S691 series shows it — typography is rudimentary, security features essentially absent. The Treaty of Alexandropol, signed November 1920 after the Turkish military campaign, rendered this entire municipal currency apparatus immediately obsolete.