Catalog
250 Kuponi
| Issuer | National Bank of Georgia |
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| Year | 1993 |
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| Value | 250 Kuponi (250 GEK) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in tones of blue and teal, with four vignettes of ornately rendered grape bunches with acanthus-scroll foliage positioned in each corner of the note, enclosing a central guilloche underprint. The large numeral '250' occupies the centre field, with the denomination spelled out in Georgian script both above and below the numeral. |
| Reverse lettering | ორას ორმოცდაათი 250 ორას ორმოცდაათი (Translation: Two Hundred and Fifty 250 Two Hundred and Fifty) |
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Georgia's kupon series was an emergency parallel currency introduced after the Soviet ruble zone collapsed. The kuponi was never intended as a permanent unit — it functioned as a transitional instrument while the country worked toward the lari, which didn't arrive until 1995. By that point, hyperinflation had rendered small denominations like this one essentially worthless in daily use, and the entire series was withdrawn and demonetized.
The 1945 printing date in the metadata is almost certainly a catalog or data entry anomaly — the note was issued in 1993.