3 Roubles Batum

Batum changed hands repeatedly between 1918 and 1920 — Ottoman occupation, then British, then briefly disputed between Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan before Soviet absorption in 1921. This 3 Rouble note belongs to the British-administered period, when local authorities issued emergency fractional currency to address a severe coin shortage rather than any formal monetary policy.

At 48 × 31 mm, it is among the smallest emergency issues of the Caucasus interregnum. Paper quality on surviving examples is notoriously fragile; the thin stock was never intended for extended circulation.