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3 Roubles Baku
| Issuer | Baku City Council (Бакинская Городская Управа) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Grey-green note with ornate scrollwork and foliate vignettes framing the central field. The heading БАКИНСКАЯ ГОРОДСКАЯ УПРАВА (Baku City Council) is printed across the top, flanked by the numeral 3 in each corner. The central text states that the note circulates within the Baku City Administration on a par with credit notes, with two manuscript signatures below the printed titles Городской Голова (City Mayor) and Член Управы (Council Member). |
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| Reverse lettering | 3 РУБЛЯ 1918 ПОДѢЛКА ПРЕСЛѢДУЕТСЯ ЗАКОНОМЪ Б.Г.У. |
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The Baku City Council began issuing emergency local currency in 1918 as the city passed through an extraordinary sequence of governments — the Baku Commune under Shaumian fell in August 1918, followed briefly by the Central Caspian Dictatorship, then Ottoman-backed Azerbaijani forces, and finally British occupation by late September. Notes issued under the City Council's authority were a pragmatic stopgap during a period when no single administration could guarantee any monetary stability beyond the municipal level.
The P#S722 emission belongs to a broader category of Russian Civil War–period municipal scrip, where local bodies stepped in precisely because no national currency commanded confidence. Survival rates vary sharply — much of the Baku municipal paper was rendered obsolete within months and discarded accordingly.