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3 Roubles Transcaucasian Commissariat
| Issuer | Transcaucasian Commissariat |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Reverse description | Green on pale underprint. The denomination numeral '3' and the Cyrillic title 'ТРИ РУБЛЯ' appear at top centre within a cloud-shaped guilloche vignette framed by a foliate border. The equivalent text of the note's legal tender statement is reproduced in three languages — Armenian (in Armenian script), Georgian (in Mkhedruli script), and Azerbaijani (in Arabic script) — arranged in three vertical columns across the centre field. A warning against counterfeiting in Cyrillic is printed along the lower margin, with the numeral '3' repeated in the lower left and right corners. |
| Reverse lettering | ТРИ РУБЛЯ ԵՐԵՔ ՌՈՒԲԼԻ სამი მანეთი ЗА ПОДДЕЛКУ БОНОВЪ ВИНОВНЫЕ ПОДВЕРГАЮТСЯ НАКАЗАНИЮ КАК ЗА ПОДДЕЛКУ КРЕДИТНЫХЪ БИЛЕТОВЪ |
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The Transcaucasian Commissariat existed for less than a year — formed in November 1917 after Bolshevik power reached Tiflis, it dissolved in April 1918 when the region fractured into the separate republics of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. This note was issued during that short, chaotic interval, when the Commissariat needed its own currency partly because Russian imperial supply had broken down and partly to assert administrative separateness from Petrograd.
Gegechkori, whose signature appears here, was the Menshevik leader who headed the Commissariat. The political tensions written into that appointment — Georgian Social Democrats running a nominally multi-ethnic government — were never resolved before the entity collapsed.