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3 rubļi Latvia, Mitau, Jelgava
| Issuer | Jelgavas Pilsētas Valde (Jelgava City Council) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Rublis (1919-1922) |
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| Obverse description | Latvian-language text note printed in black on a pale green guilloche underprint with a meander-pattern border running along all four edges. The heading reads 'Jelgawas pilsehtas walde' in bold Gothic script, flanked left and right by corner denomination numerals '3 rubli'. At centre, the Jelgava city coat of arms — a shield bearing a lion passant above a key — serves as the central vignette, with bilingual redemption text in Latvian arranged in two columns on either side. The lower portion carries a handwritten signature of the Pilsētas galwa (City Head) to the right, with the serial number and the issue authorization date of 5 December 1918 printed to the left. |
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| Obverse lettering | 3 rubli Jelgawas pilsehtas walde apņemàs pret schò parahdu sihmi seschu mehneschu laikâ pehz wispahriga meera ratifikazijas trihs rubļus samaksat. Droschiba par scho 400,000 rubļu un agrak isdotam 600,000 rubļu parahdu sihmem zaur pilsehtas mantibu 1,593,000 rubļu wehrtibâ ir pilnigi apgalwota. Schis parahdu sihmes teek Kursemes waldibas maksajamâsweetâs kâ maksas lihdseklis preti ņemtas. Schis parahdu sihmes wiltoschana teek stingri sodita. Isdota us pilsehtas domneeku sapulzes nolehmuma no 5. dezembra 1918. Pilsehtas galwa: No |
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Jelgava — historically Mitau, the former capital of the Duchy of Courland — was caught between German occupation and the collapsing Russian administrative order in 1918, and this note reflects exactly that chaos. The Jelgavas Pilsētas Valde issued emergency municipal currency because no functioning central authority existed to supply it. German forces had occupied the city since 1915, and by the armistice period the monetary vacuum was genuine, not administrative convenience.
The trilingual naming convention in the title — Latvian, German, and the old Courland toponym — tells you more about that particular political moment than any textbook summary would.