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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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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Check-style emergency note issued by the Alexandropol Municipal Public Bank, with Cyrillic text across the top reading АЛЕКСАНДРОПОЛЬСКIЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ. The central field contains a handwritten account number and cheque number, with the printed text indicating payment to the bearer of twenty-five roubles, charged to a special current account. A circular bank seal stamp and a handwritten date of 11 October 1919 appear in the lower portion, along with manuscript signatures. |
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| Obverse lettering | АЛЕКСАНДРОПОЛЬСКIЙ ГОРОДСКОЙ ОБЩЕСТВЕННЫЙ БАНКЪ Счетъ № 712 Спец. Текущий Счетъ Чекъ № 12575 Р.С. 25-- К.-- Заплатите предъявителю ДВАДЦАТЬ ПЯТЬ рублей списав сумму со счета II Октября 191_9 года |
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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.