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250 000 000 Roubles Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
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| Year | 1924 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Central large numeral '250,000,000' within an ornate guilloche frame, with the denomination in Cyrillic text above and below. The arms of the Transcaucasian SFSR appear at upper centre, flanked by the value '250,000,000 РУБЛЕЙ' repeated at left and right. Multilingual text panels in Russian, Armenian, Georgian, and Azerbaijani appear at the left and right margins, with two signature facsimiles and the year '1924' along the lower edge. |
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| Obverse lettering | ДЕНЕЖНЫЙ ЗНАК ЗСФСР ДВЕСТИ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТ МИЛЛИОН РУБЛЕЙ 250,000,000 Председатель Советов Комин Народный Комис. Финансов |
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The Transcaucasian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic was itself a short-lived administrative experiment — a forced federation of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia created in 1922 and dissolved into separate Soviet republics by 1936. Its currency issues came at the tail end of the Soviet monetary catastrophe that had rendered the rouble nearly worthless through hyperinflation, which is why denominations at this scale were routine rather than exceptional by 1924.
The P#S637 sits within the final wave of TSFSR emissions, issued just as the new Soviet chervonets-based stabilization was being pushed through. Notes like this were superseded almost immediately and saw little meaningful transactional use.