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5 000 000 Roubles Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic
| Issuer | Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1917-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-green on a fine guilloche underprint, the face is framed by ornate pillar borders at left and right with decorative floral motifs. The state arms of the Azerbaijan SSR are positioned at upper centre, flanked by bilingual inscriptions in Arabic and Cyrillic identifying the issuing republic. The denomination ПЯТЬ МИЛЛИОНОВ РУБЛЕЙ is set within an ornamental cartouche at lower centre, with the date 1923 and signature lines for the Narkom of Finance and the Kassir below. |
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| Reverse description | The back is printed in olive-green and pink on a dense guilloche underprint covering the entire field, with the state arms of the Azerbaijan SSR at upper centre within the decorative border. Two large numeral panels bearing 5000000 appear in circular guilloche cartouches at left and right. The full republic title АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНСКАЯ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКАЯ СОВЕТСКАЯ РЕСПУБЛИКА runs across the upper portion, while the value ПЯТЬ МИЛЛИОНОВ РУБЛЕЙ is repeated in both Cyrillic and Arabic script within a central ornamental cartouche. |
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The Transcaucasian republics — Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia — were brought under Soviet control between 1920 and 1921, but each retained nominal monetary independence long enough to issue their own currency before being absorbed into the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic in March 1922. This note postdates that federation yet still carries the Azerbaijan SSR imprint, a transitional anomaly that reflects just how chaotic the monetary consolidation process actually was on the ground.
By 1923, hyperinflation had rendered face values in the millions almost meaningless. The S720 designation places it among the final locally-attributed emissions before Transcaucasian and eventually Soviet federal notes displaced republic-level paper entirely.